Suddenly iMovie will not import certain sections of video

I have a MacBook Pro with 4GB of memory. I've been working on an imovie project and have been importing video into it without problems until last night. It just won't import that last 4 minutes of video. Is this a lack of memory? The MAC says "all memory slots are full."
I'm not very tech wise, so if you could answer in humanize I would appreciate it.

I should add that there are 7 sections of film. When I play it from archive on the cpu all 7 play. After importing over to imovie, only 6 are showing in thumbnails.

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Suddenly iMovie does not import any files any more! It was working just fine before.
The screen looks like this -> http://grab.by/BaoI
I can see the files but when I click on the Import selected button ( http://grab.by/BaoO ) at the right bottom of the page, it doesn't do anything!
I cannot even create a new project. I get this -> http://grab.by/Bdhw
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