" Project Locked by Other User" HELP!!!

Hi Everyone!
I am having a problem opening my daughters 1st year DVD. Last summer, our iMac died, and we replaced the hard drive. We were able to salvage all the files, and put them onto an external.
Now, I am trying to open one of those salvaged files from iDVD, and I am getting this message:
The project Mairead...The first year1 is locked by the user Steph (user ID 501): 2008-11-30 17:23:42 -0500.
The project can't be opened at this time.
I've tried switching the username to Steph, and it still doesn't work. When I click on it and open the info, it says everyone is "read and/or write" ---
Please help!!! I don't know what to do...
Thanks!

Take a look at:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1495274
especially the comment by markwd21

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