Remove an unused drive from Event Library???

Hello,
An external hard drive that I no longer use (or in fact have anymore) is still showing the Event Library of iMovie '09 with an exclamation mark icon.
Is there anyway to remove the drive from iMovie?
Cheers

Thank you for the suggestion. I had tried that earlier and tried it again just now. No luck. I can open the pref file in TextWrangler and can see the references to the old external hard drive.
Do I dare just go in and strip out the code that references that old external drive?
I appreciate your response.

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