Photo settings displaying black preview with all pictures - please help!

I started working on my first "real" movie last night - got got my iMac 2 weeks ago. Before I was just messing around trying to learn the software. I got 20 pictures done (out of 400), I know that doesn't sound like a whole lot-- got done, but anyways. Things were working and looking great! I was really starting to enjoy iMovie!
Today however I went back to my computer, (didn't shut down iMovie last night) and now the preview screen of the image when you play with the Ken Burns effects in the photo settings isn't displaying the image, instead it's just displays a black screen. I tried this with a newly imported image and an image I had worked on last night using the Kens Burns effects, but it displays the same results... a black scree
I have tried selecting all of the images, music and transitions copying them and thinking I could paste them into a new movie, but of it does the same thing in the new movie. I have also tried to import my movie into a new movie, shut down both iMovie and my computer. Nothing is working.
Because I'm on a very tight deadline (Tuesday), I decided I would just start over completely. After I got 10 pictures done, it did it again in the new movie!
I bought my imac because of all the great things people have told me about iMovie (I've only worked on Windows in the past) I really like my iMac but these problems have really frustrated me!!!
Responses would be GREATLY appreciated!
imac Mac OS X (10.4.8)

It's not clear from your description whether this has happened, but be aware there's a bug in iMovie 6 that will cause the black screen after you empty the iMovie Trash.
iMovie 6 (incorrectly) discards its copy of the source image when you empty the Trash. It stores the copy inside the project when you import the photo. After you empty the Trash the image is no longer available. You can't UPDATE the clip. When you do, it turns black.
So if photos in the Photo list import properly but the photos of EXISTING clips are not updated correctly, that may be why. The solution is to not empty the iMovie Trash.
In addition, it's necessary for the disk the project resides on to use the Mac OS Extended disk format. If you use an external drive that has a different format, iMovie can't properly save to the drive.
It's also possible there are third-party iMovie plug-ins and QuickTime add-ons installed on your Mac causing problems for iMovie.
Those factors are discussed here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2920540#2920540
Karl

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