Movie opens old iMovie

Hi.
I have iMovie 3 on my hard disc and a copy of iMovie 2 in a backup file on my external LaCie hard drive.
I tried continuing with an iMovie project saved on my external hard drive. It opened iMovie 3 (from HD), the picture seemed a little jerky when not viewed at full screen. I continued editing, extracted all audio and tried to save file. The spinning ball appeared for a while and didn't go.
I forced quit after about 5 minutes. Now when I try and load the file from it's place on the external hard drive it opens iMovie2. If I open iMovie3 (from the HD) and then open the project it is extremely jerky and slow.
Any ideas? Do I need the downgrade for Quicktime?
I have spent hours on this movie and am keen not to lose it!!!!

The movie had been saved in 3 but still opens in 2.
I think you said it crashed while saving so the save may not be complete or maybe you are right but 3 won't open 4 and 4 won't open 5.
I tried to download the Quicktime 7.0.2 and onwards downgrade to 7.0.1 (so that I could then download the downgrade to version 6.something) but it brings up a red exclaimation mark on my HD icon and say's that I do not have the relevant program to allow the install.
This is probably because you have 7.0.3 downloaded automatically. I suggest you look in the Quicktime Discussions http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?14@@.68ad2224.ee6ba92

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