Quicktime back into iMovie ?

Hi
I upgraded from iMovie 3 to iMovie HD the other day with iLife' 05. When I tried to open the project, it asked if I wanted to upgrade and warned me I wouldn't be able to open it in older versions anymore, that was fine with me so I clicked. For some reason, when the movie launches the file is blank but I have a Quicktime version instead! I really don't want to have to go through the media folder and start again.
So, can I import the Quicktime movie back into iMovie so I can continue tweaking it? Or is that it now and if that's the case, can I still export it to dvd?
Also, I have some old movies clogging up my HD that I don't want anymore and I can't delete them. I've had a box open which lists all my documents on the HD but when I highlight the file to delete, or try and drag it to the trash, it doesn't go. Do I have to find a main source and delete it from there? Thanks.
iMac Flat Panel Mac OS X (10.3.2)

I must confess that I assumed that the two audio tracts in iMovie were stereo, because in expert settings one can define stereo or mono. On one iMove track I had music, and on the other I had my voice. If it is exported then I assumed one must have access to both tracts to hear them. Since on my friend's computer I was only hearing one side, I came to the conclusion that he was not hearing the other tract. I could be mistaken, but that was my conclusion.

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