Spinning Ball in IMovie HD 6

NEED HELP: iMovie HD 6, spinning ball locks my system up. I’m using iMac G5 with 2 GB of ram and 250 GB on hard drive and latest OSX. I’ve read and tried all of the advice on the user forum, and spoken too many times to Apple tech without any success.
Tried Disk Utility from Tiger; changed Energy saver in preferences so HD disk will not sleep when possible; tried Spotlight solution; and ran TechTool 4 Pro and have struck out on all these suggestions.
The spinning ball lasts for a long time and eventually I have to force quit. At this point, I’m close to giving up on iMovie. Anyone out there with any new recommendations. Thanks in advance.
billct

I too get this spinning ball but only when importing video clips into Imovie. I just force quit and reopen and the video clip shows up in the trash (in perfectly fine condition). I then drag it back to my movie clip section, save the movie and all is well. An annoying glitch but it works. What are you doing when the spinning ball occurs? Hope this helps!

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      AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.09 - SDK 10.6 Support
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      iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0
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      AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.09 - SDK 10.6 Support
      GarminGPSControl: Version: 3.0.1.0 Release - SDK 10.4 Support
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      Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 6.2 Support
      F5 Inspection Host Plugin: Version: 6031.2010.0122.1 Support
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      Editmote  Support
      Flash Player  Support
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      Growl  Support
      Java  Support
      Witness  Support
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      Time Machine not configured!
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      137 MB softwareupdated
      94 MB Safari
      82 MB VShieldScanner
      82 MB Dock
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      1.54 GB Inactive RAM
      647 MB Wired RAM
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