Repeated problems - is there any way of saving my projects myself?

I'm sorry to keep filling up the forum with questions, but the more I try moving forward, the more problems I encounter. I am now finding that even simple edits of my work frequently result in the programme crashing, meaning that whatever I have done up until that point is destroyed.
I have just had iMovie crash and destroy a simply enormous amount of work that I had agonised over for an extremely long time; 100s, perhaps 1000s, of tiny clips edited down to precise fractions of a second, which was looking extremely good and had taken countless hours to get done. But it was then destroyed in a single keystroke when I tried adjusting the speed of one clip. Since that disaster, I have tried building up what I did again... only to have the programme crash again... and again once more! It seems that adjusting the speed of clips is part of the problem.
I think another problem is that iMovie doesn't let you save your work - it simply does it for you - something which people seem to point out as an advantage. I don't see what the advantage of this is, since it means that when the inevitable crash occurs, you can't retrieve your work, because it "saves" the crashed version.
So anyway, is there anything I can do to avoid the programme crashing? Is there anything I can do to save the work I do myself? Perhaps I could go into iMovie projects in Finder after every few edits I make, and copy it to another folder - and then copy it back once the programme crashes? This ought to be unnecessary.
Can anyone give me an insight into what it is about the "speed up/slow down" function that causes such problems? And can we expect to see these problems addressed in an update any time soon?
I'm sorry if this message sounds ranty but, as I said, I have had over a month's worth of very hard and painstaking work brought to nought in an instant, and it's really hard to see how I am getting my money's worth out this machine if it can't handle simple commands.
Thank you very much in advance for any advice you can give me. When this programme works it's the most wonderful thing, and I get a lot of joy out of it. But as it is now, crashing frequently, it is a source of immense - and probably psychologically unhealthy! - frustration and stress.

AppleMan1958 said:
If a crash causes a general problem that impacts all projects, it could be a corrupted preference file (plist file) for iMovie
The preference file is located in your user (Home) folder Library>Preferences and is named "com.apple.iMovie8.plist". Close iMovie then delete (trash) this file. When next opened, iMovie will create a new file with the default settings. You may need to change some settings to suit your own preference. To do this, go to the iMovie menu item iMovie>Preferences and make any changes under each of the 4 tabs.
As AppleMan indicated, iMovie crashes may in some circumstances cause the preference file to become corrupted, resulting in iMovie behaving unpredictably.
This link to an Apple article "iLife: Troubleshooting Basics" may be helpful (it includes the tip about removing the preference file):
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3249
John

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