Lost ALL projects when upgrading

We have a lot of iMovie projects built in iLife '08 -- after running the iLife '09 installer and launching iMovie '09 -- these projects won't appear in iMovie.
The projects still exist in the /Movies/iMovies Projects/ folder -- but they do not appear in iMovie.
We tried double-clicking on these project files -- and they opened iMovie '09 -- but still did not appear in the project list.
Do they need to be imported? Upgraded?
Thoughts anyone?
Message was edited by: C. Scott Gilbert

Here is a bit more. I noticed that when I upgraded it didn't "find" all of my projects as I had archived quite a few on an external hard drive; that in fact wasn't formatted for Mac (DOS). Even when I moved them to an internal drive (I have 4) it still didn't find them; I couldn't even double click to load them.
I believe that in order for iMovie to find your projects they have to be in a folder called "iMovie Projects" but at the minimum - if you don't have them there you will want to trash your iMovie preferences and rebuild the library file. When I trashed my preferences it found them all.

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