Saving video files in iMovie'11 and iMovie'06

Hi gang! I have a question about iMovie.
When I bought an iMac in 2006 it came with iLife06 preinstalled. Ever since then I have been using iMovie 06 to make movies. In the fall of 2007 I bought a video camera and I started filming my floorball team's games. If you want to find out more about floorball, check out this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floorball
Anyway... Since then I have been making little clips and posted them on Youtube, much to te enjoyment of the players. I have also burned every single game I've filmed on a DVD. What I have done also is save certain clips, highlights, i.e. goals and saves and such. I have on iMovie project save for each season since then. 2007/08, 2008/09, 2009/10 and about half of the 2010/11 season. We're talking of about 800-900 clips.
Now...
About two weeks ago the harddrive on my trusted old iMac died on me. Fortunately I had the material backed up on an external harddrive. I bought a new computer, a Mac Mini. Luckily I had iMovie 06 on the external drive so I could still use it, should I want to (I preferred its interface to that of iMovie 08).
However, I edited the film from our last game in iMovie'11, and I am smitten. Which leads me to my question.
How do I continue to save my highlight clips? The goals and the saves and whatnot? Should I save them in Events or in Projects?

Thanks for the feedback guys.
The keyword feature sounds very handy. In the old iMovie 06 I gave each clip I save a number/name. four digits depending which season it was (0809 for the 2008/09 season for example) - then three digits (001 for the first one, 002 for the second one, 003 for the third one etc.) and then I enter the name of the person who scored the goal or made the save. 1011-091 Oskar Andersson, 1011-135 Bobby Ehnberg, for example. If I can tag the new clips with keywords in the same manner that will be very useful later, if I should happen to make a film with only goals that Bobby has scored for example.
I'm amazed how smooth iMovie'11 is, once you get a hang of how to edit your films. And it's so easy to make cool clips.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr-bfXLWDv0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5HTx1X8gas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsZEy2Wxa-8
The trailers you can make are awesome!

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