Iomega eGo portable External Hard Drive problem with imovie09

I have an eGo portable HD Mac edition Firewire800/Firewire400/USB 2.0 Iomega HD and a Macbook OS X ver 10.5.8 with imovie09.
I have moved all my imovie09 files to the iomega hd. When i open imovie09 to work on the files that are on the iomega hd, you can see in the Event Library that the iomega hd shows up but when I click on it there are no files in it. Since there was no step by step manual on how to transfer files from the Mac to the iomega hd, i'm wondering what I did wrong.
Thanks for any help you can give me!!

Some things to check...
1) Is the iomega formatted as Mac OX Extended (journaled)? If it is FAT32, it will not work with iMovie. I'm guessing that it is properly formatted since you can see it in iMovie.
2) Have you used the Events to make Projects? If so, did you move the Events and/or Projects to the external drive from within iMovie? If you move them in the Finder, it will break the links to the projects. The solution is to move them back where they were, and then to move them to the external drive using iMovie. To move an Event in iMovie, you hold the Command Key down while dragging the file and dropping it on that icon for the external drive that you saw in the Event Library. Projects can be moved similarly.
3) If you have not used any of the events in Projects, it is possible to move them using the Finder. iMovie will expect to find your Event Folders in a Folder at the top level of the external drive. The Folder must be named "iMovie Events". (Or imovie Projects, for projects.) If they are not in these folders, iMovie will not see them.

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