Problems Opening A Perviously Saved Project

I have imovie '08 and I mistakenly edited a film using this program before realizing how terrible it is. I edited this project and then saved it on an external hard drive. Now I am trying to open it again in imovie (I have also tried importing it) and it is not working. The file is a iMovie Project and I have been able to open up all the clips that this project uses, they are in my "event library."
I also have the older version on imovie: imovie HD, and I also have Final Cut Pro 6. I got both after I realized this version of imovie is worthless. If there is anyway to bypass the whole imovie '08 problem and just open them up in Final Cut, this would of course be ideal. However, I have not been able to figure this out, and I can't even open up this project in the imovie program that it was uploaded and edited in.
Thank you for you time and patience,
Michael

It is not an issue of PPC <-> Intel. I do this every day and the only thing that happens is that the record path gets lost on the other machine so you have to set it again.
Probably your error message is correct and the file is indeed corrupt - for whatever reason.
This sometimes happens, so I personally save every state 3 times, I had the incident that 2 out of these were corrupt but 1 still working.

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