Problems importing from iPhoto

I was saving images I found off of Google images to my iPhoto library to later use the pictures in a project I am creating in iMovie 09. Clicking and dragging the images into my movie worked fine until iMovie no longer recognized any new images I added to iPhoto. I tried flagging the new images and moved them to different events, but when I search for them in iMovie, they don't exist. How do I fix this, or how to I import the pictures I want without depending on iPhoto or Photo Booth?

Just to add - i have just tried uploading photos from my iphone too and the issue is the same... I can view them all in iphoto but i cant import. Very strange.
Any help very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance

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My idea now, subject to any advice anyone can give me, is to move the iPhoto library back to the Mac's hard drive (there is enough room, but little spare), delete everything on the external drive, format the external drive to Mac OS Extended, re-organise some of the iPhoto events, 'delete' the 'contents' of the Aperture library (without affecting of course the contents of the iPhoto library) and try again (possibly by importing the iPhotos this time on an event by event basis).
Is this a good idea? If so, I would be grateful for any suggestions about how to take these steps. In particular, the step of deleting the contents of the Aperture library without affecting the iPhoto library. Are there other better ideas? If so, what?
Thanks very much in advance for any help anyone can offer.

My idea now, subject to any advice anyone can give me, is to move the iPhoto library back to the Mac's hard drive (there is enough room, but little spare), delete everything on the external drive, format the external drive to Mac OS Extended, re-organise some of the iPhoto events, 'delete' the 'contents' of the Aperture library (without affecting of course the contents of the iPhoto library) and try again (possibly by importing the iPhotos this time on an event by event basis).
If there is nothing in your Aperture library that you need to keep, that is a good strategy.
But some suggestions:
Before you move your iPhoto Library from its current location (which will render the Aperture library useless, because it is referencing inside iPhoto), check if you accidentally have imported any images as managed into Aperture: create a smart album with the rule "File status is managed" at the top level of the library albums. This way you will see, if you have any images only in Aperture, that need exporting, before you delete the library.
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Correct Answer Re: Aperture Loses iPhoto Edited Images
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The only file I have to work on is the one I have in the external drive since I already got rid of the old computer....
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http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14850&vid=106967
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