Running iMovie in Rosetta?

Hi,
I just recently started using iMovie on my MacBook Pro. I stumbled upon the apparently well know cfx plug-ins. I found all the info about how you have to force iMovie into Rosetta to use these plug-ins. I tried pretty much everything and nothing will let my iMovie use Rosetta.
What I did was open the package contents of iMovie, open the info.plist file using textedit and changed the line "<key>LSRequiresNativeExecution</key><true/>" to "<key>LSRequiresNativeExecution</key><false/>". Then I saved the file and repaired the disk permissions using Disk Repair. Finally i opened the system library and trashed the files "Extensions.kextcache and Extensions.mkext. Then I rebooted and opened the info on iMovie where the option to run iMovie in Rosetta was supposed to be. But no luck.
Can anyone help me? I really want to use these plug-ins that cfx offer. I called apple and they told me that it wasn't possible, but it obviously is. I'm running iMovie HD 6.0.3 on my MBP 2.0 ghz intel duo core with 1.5 gigs of ram. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Quinn
MacBook Pro

Did you do this as well?
Intel-based Macs: Forcing a Universal application to run with Rosetta
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303120
Or couldn't you get that far?
Hang in there-I contacted Christian Franz (c f/x) and if he is around, perhaps he'll lend a hand here.
:)Sue

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