Missing iMovie plist?

Hello,
I have been having some trouble with the clips in a project I'm editing, and have looked online for some solutions. I have often seen people adivsed to go to their references folder and delete the com.apple.iMovie.plist file. Then, when you restart iMovie, it will generate a new plist with the default settings restored.
My problem is that, when I go to Library/Preferences, there is no file by that name. I have com.apple.iLife.plist and com.apple.iLife09.plist, but not one for iMovie. Could this be the source of the problem?

I can't find a folder called "Home" I'm afraid. But, in the meantime, the same problem has occured again: I have been editing a project and it was going fine - but I shut down iMovie to do some other things, and when I reopened it, the project I was working on is now corrupted. When I select it from the list of projects I have, the "Edit Project" button goes grey, and I cannot even enter it to edit. Do you know why this might be? It seems so pernicious: randomly deciding that it is broken now, and cannot be used, which simply wastes so much of my time! I am desperate to be able to use this programme without interference from random bugs and crashes, but I can't seem to avoid them! What is most frustrating is that I use iMovie at work to create some very boring and generic material for my company, and it always works perfectly. But when I want to create something that I want to create, at home, suddenly the programme can't work. It is such a collosal waste of my time, but I really want to use it to make something.

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