Spinning beach ball of death when opening a project

hello,
i would like to ask if there is a solution to my problem:
at my school in the media department, there are 4 eMac's 2 with OS X Panther and imovie 04, and 2 with OS X jaguar with imovie 03, now only one of the jaguar computers has decided that it wont open only one project, and it needs to be sent off to the exam board, all that happens is when i open it, i just get the spinning beach ball of death, and nothing else, i have tried to connect another mac with ilife 04 to it but the same problem occurs, i am updating the macs so that they will all have panther and ilife 05, would that solve it? also would any existing projects from imovie 3/4 be able to be opened in ilife05?
many thanks
bigpapaboogaloo

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