Importing Windows Movie Maker Project

I coworker brought in a PC with Windows Movie Maker on it (XP) that would not render without crashing. Now she has a 28 minute video that consists of images and audio.
Would there be a way to import this into an Apple application (especially iMovie) so I can finish tweaking it and make a DVD.
She needs it for graduation on the 10th and it is rather useless being stuck in its current format.
As it has several hundred photos and music, I would rather not rebuild the slideshow by hand.
Any suggestions?

Your downloaded music is in Apple's AAC(m4a) format and Windows Movie Maker does not accept this format.  You can convert it to mp3 in iTunes.
Itunes menu, EDIT/PREFERENCES, GENERAL tab.  Go in IMPORT SETTINGS, under IMPORT USING, you have various Encoder, AAC. AIFF, APPLE LOSSLESS, MP3 and WAV.  Select MP3 encoder, then OK and OK.
Right mouse click the song(s) in music library will give you a Menu which includes CREATE MP3 version.

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