Project Library directions needed

I appologize for my very novice question, but does anyone know where I could find some directions on how the iMovie 09 Projects Library is supposed to work? It seems to me that there are at least 2 to 3 different areas there that a projects gets saved to. Is this the breakdown of video, audio, etc.? I had deleted a file there once before thinking it was a duplicate copy of a project, but later found that the original project no longer has audio.
Thanks for any help/direction you can give.
MassNative

You cannot use the Finder to move an iMovie project to an external drive or anywhere at all. You need to move it within iMovie. Otherwise iMovie will not be able to load it.
It's difficult to understand what you are describing. When you are talking about clicking into the "Project Library", are you referring to the contents of the iMovie Projects folder, or the contents of a project file seen by clicking on '"Show Package Contents" on one of the project files. What you are describing isn't making sense to me.
Could you be talking about the contents of the "Project Library" window displayed within iMovie itself. In that case there should be only one file shown per project.
Sorry I can't be more helpful. It's hard to understand what you are looking at.

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