Project files no longer open

Hello. All of a sudden, for no apparent reason, all my iMovie 08 project files have become unusable. If I click them, they open iMovie but only to show "My first project" in the upper left pane. The project itself doesn't show up. None of my previous projects show up. Events still do show and seem normal. Any ideas on how to fix this?

This is not an isolated incident. I contributed to another thread on this topic which curiously had the subject header 'How do I export a selected still from my iMovie?'
I will copy my comments below with those from the person who initiated the post...
Miranda watson
iMovie quit on me several times as I was doing final edits on a movie I'd been working on for 20 hours over the past 3 days... It literally vanished from the list and isn't even in the finder (as if it never existed!) ... Every other film on the Project Library, etc. has stayed in place, even bits of newer stuff I had imported more recently to start work on.... And as I know iMovie self-saves constantly, I would expect slightly earlier versions of it still to be there... but, NO!, it seems to have utterly erased itself! How on earth do I retrieve my evaporated movie?? There must be a ghost trace of it somewhere! Please help! I put my soul into creating this film and feel heartbroken if it is lost for good. Something about the process cannot be repeated. Many thanks.
Kirsty JB
Hi Miranda
I wish I had some offering of help to make but sadly I only have a similar tale of woe. I just got off the phone with Applecare and they said that there was nothing they could do unless I had my timemachine operating - of course I disconnected it to bring in the event media and forgot to plug it back in during my first moment of imovie excitement - doh! I suspect the support guy thought that I was quite insane, so I just wanted to let you know that you were not.
The strangest thing is that even in the Leopard finder, 'search' 'for today' was completely blank for the project name - it seems truly to have evaporated.
I will keep my eye on this post - I hope a smart person comes by with something for us both.
Cheers
Kirsty

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