Missing songs and photos in iMovie '11

For some reason my iTunes and iPhoto libraries don't show up in iMovie anymore. The area where one can access songs or photos is empty - seems like the link is broken between the iLife apps.
I have searched the web and followed others' suggestions, but no luck.
I have deleted all sort of preferences in my user account as well as on the hard disk.
I have created another admin account - same problem there - doesn't see the one iTunes song I downloaded.
I have reinstalled all iLife apps and updated them - no go. Same issue (even when in iMovie version 8 (when I update I use version 9).
I have made sur eonly 1 iMovie app is present (deleted version 8)
I have iLife '11 running in Mountain Lion (10.8.5).
Any ideas?

Thanks Geoff.
The problem I'm having is not with items missing in the Event or Project library, but when trying to add music (or photos) - see screenshot. The window where one is supposed to place a piece of music from one's iTunes library (or iPhoto library) is empty.
My iTunes library holds many songs and is in my correct user folder.
I repaired permissions. Also no go.
Of course I can manually place songs in an iMovie project, but it was so much nicer within iMovie.

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Argelius wrote:
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