Iphoto video clips vanished

I installed ilife08 without any problems. When I ran imovie for the first time it imported all my video clips as I hoped it would.
After a little while playing around with the new programs I ran a software update which updated iphoto to version 7.0.1. Now when I go back into imovie there is no sign of any of the iphoto video clips. I can't find any way of getting imovie to rescan the iphoto folder. When I go to the import option I find that the iphoto folder is greyed out.
Any ideas?
Phil71

ok an update....
re-importing the clips into iphoto did work. However to get imovie to put them back into its library I have to rename the files so that they seem different to the original. If I attempt to import the clips back into iphoto using the original file names imovie continues to ignore them.
This has to be something that has occured since the 7.0.1 iphoto update. Any new clip I add into iphoto since the update is added to imovie as expected.
The moral of this story is when installing ilife08 make sure you update iphoto to version 7.0.1 BEFORE running imovie for the first time!
Hope this helps someone.....now I need a drink!
Phil71

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