Opening an old project with i-movie

I've saved my project into an external HDD. After reinstalling the new Mac OSX 1.4.3 I restored the project. Now when I try to open it i-move tell me:
Documents not assigned and it show me the list of all the clips. What have I to do ? I've tried to restore but the message is the same. I've tried to drag and drop the single clip but it show me the message: to large than 2 Gb, use QT to make a smaller file.
Thank you
Best regards
Power Book G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

You can split the video into <9 min 27 sec chunks which iMovie 1-4 can import with QT Player Pro:
Open the big clip and move the slider to the very beginning of it. Press Shift and move the slider about 9 min forward to make a selection. Choose Edit/Cut. Open a new player and choose Edit/Paste. Export as PAL or NTSC DV stream with 48 kHz audio (I guess save as reference movies would also be OK and a lot faster). Repeat. Then import the smaller segments into iMovie.
Oak Street Software has an AppleScript that can do the splitting automatically but unfortunately QT 7 broke it.
iMovie 5 can import big clips so this isn't necessary with it.
See also (I haven't yet tried the SW mentioned in the last link -- at least one of them works in QT 5):
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=267009&tstart=0

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