Movie From External Opewns iMovie But Can't Find Movie

I downloaded from a mini-dv tape to iMovie 09 on my MBP. Moved some clips into the Project area and closed iMovie. Went From Movies to iMovie Projects, found the video and dragged and dropped it onto an external hard drive (firewire.)Hooked the drive up to another BP running same configuration. When I clicked on the file on the external, iMovie 09 opened but could only find projects that were already on the computer. The drive showed up in iMovie but didn't show the movie. When we went to File/Import the file was greyed out. We are stymied. It opens iMovie but we can't find the project. How do we make this work? Logic tells me it's simple but maybe it's not.

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