Opening iMovie throws hundreds of clip files in trash

When opening iMovie it seems to hang for quite a while. Noticed also it was creating hundreds of clip files into the trash while program is opening. None of these clip files have any video on them and show zero K for file size. Also camera is being recognized and controls operate camera (Canon zr40) but no video comes through - blue screen. Had functioned fine in the past. Know camera is functioning fine and firewire connection is good because I tried it on another Mac. Also camera works fine with iMovie 8. Trashed plist file and did the garageband thing with no luck. (Problems existed before install of iMovie 8). Any ideas as to what is going on?

Patrick - no external drive is hooked up to the computer. Another thing - when it was working fine I only had a single account on the computer. I later set up several accounts for my kids and hadn't had an opportunity to use iMovie until just recently when I found it didn't work. I deleted the accounts in case that had something to do with it but still no change.

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