Iphoto videos don't show in iMovie '11

I've upgraded to Lion from Snow Leopard with a clean install and a full resture from a time machine backup.
Everything runs really smoothly and all files are back in there place. Except for a large amount of my iPhoto videos in imovie.
I've performed these steps to no avail:
Make sure your software is up to date by running Software Update.
Make sure iPhoto has been opened at least once, and that when iPhoto is opened, your albums and photos appear in the iPhoto window.
Make sure there is not an ampersand "&" in the path to the iPhoto library in the Finder. For example you may have moved your iPhoto library to a folder called "photos & movies" or a volume named "Mac & Cheese". If so, remove the ampersand from the volume or folder name orrelocate the iPhoto library to another folder or volume that does not have an ampersand in its name.
Try deleting the com.apple.iApps.plist file from the Preferences folder of your Home folder. Open iPhoto again to re-create this file.
Try recreating the XML file used to populate the photo listing (see steps below).
If you are using iPhoto 5 or later, check to see if you have any album names (especially smart albums) in your iPhoto source list which contains any special characters. Special characters are any character that's not a letter or a number such as an ampersand. Other characters include ^*$#(). If there are albums with special characters, remove these characters and see if this resolves the issue.
Open the iLife applications to see if you are able to browse the iPhoto library properly.
All these videos are shot with an iphone 4, and the only ones that do appear are part of an imovie project that I started while on Snow Leopard.
All suggestions are welcome as I am clueless to what may be the cause of this.
Many thanks in advance!

I've just trashed com.apple.iMovieApp.plist and now iMovie is generating thumbnails for the iPhoto videos.
I'm holding my breath...

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