Only Import from Camera available, everything else is greyed out!

Hi there,
A user of mine is using iMovie 08 and after I start the app and go into File, I only have import from Camera available, everything else is greyed out and cant do anything.
I have delete prefs from Lib/Prefs and ~/Lib/Prefs, inc all com.apple.imovie and iapps pref files.
The only thing I havent tried yet is to rule out if its just the users account by logging in as another user,
Cheers
newtonajn

This happens regularly for me (w. a FW800 card reader or with images already on the drive). I don't think it actually stops -- it just goes into deep background mode and does stop updating both the Activity window and the main app window.
I suspect some combination of limited hardware and a drive I/O glitch. I have never noticed it happened on Libraries which I store on external drives (yes, I do that) -- only on Libraries on the boot drive.
It (almost?) always clears when I close Safari. I don't know if this is specific to Safari, or that closing Safari releases the resources Aperture wants. I have closed everything but Safari, and seen the problem persist. Within 20 sec. of closing Safari, though, Aperture is back to steaming through the import.

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