Incorrect project dates after moving to new external drive

I'm running iMovie 09 8.0.5 and Leopard.
I have moved projects from my macbook internal drive to an external drive by dragging them within imovie. I picked move both projects and events. Both projects and events moved. I can play the project from the new external drive. The dates on the events are correct, but the dates on the projects have changed to today's date. Since I have 50+ projects, they are not sorted properly. The project on my internal drive are grouped by year. How do I get this on the external drive? I can find no way to set the project date within iMovie.

An update. I've figured out a workaround.
First of all, you must created folders yourself in the project library for the external hard drive. That is done by right-clicking on the external hard drive in project library. I must have done that a long time ago for the internal hard drive.
Second changing the date associated with the project itself is tricky. It is governed by the modification date of the Project file within the project itself. You can't see this file without using "Show Package Contents" in the finder.
The easiest way to change the modification date is using the terminal and touch command.
I have a external disk named Home Videos Primary 1000 GB
The project name is 2007 Christmas Rocket
and the correct terminal command is
touch -mt 0801040000 /Volumes/Home\ Videos\ Primary\ 1000\ GB/iMovie\ Projects.localized/2007\ Christmas\ Rocket.rcproject/Project
I entered this command this by typing touch -mt -0801040000 (followed by a space) into the terminal window and then dragging the aforementioned Project file into the terminal window (which provided the correct path).

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