Slow Launch and Scan of iPhoto Videos

When I launch iMovie 11 (9.0.4), the app launches very quickly, but then beachballs for over a minute while my iPhoto Videos load. Previously, iMovie would ask if I'd like to build thumbnails and I'd answer no, and then manually import only the videos I wanted to work with. Now, I'm never prompted to build thumbnails and it seems iMovie is scanning my iPhoto library everytime the app launches.
Is this normal behaviour for 9.0.4 and is there any way to speed things up?

Someone else was having a related, though not quite the same issue with iPhoto Videos. I did a lookup on Google to see what some people recommend and found this on the MacRumours forums: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=477746. It seems pretty drastic to pull the videos out of iPhoto just to get them to disappear in iMovie, but that's what one person that forum was suggesting. It would be way better if there was a switch that turned off the monitoring of the iPhoto Video folder in iMovie, that's for sure.

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