THE VOLUME FOR "MOVIES" CAN NOT BE FOUND

Not sure if I posted this in the right place. I would appreciate anyone that can help.
I installed iLife 08 yesterday and everything seemed to go fine.
When I go to open my MOVIES folder I keep getting a : "THE VOLUME FOR "MOVIES" CAN NOT BE FOUND" message?
What happened??
More importantly....
On the left hand of my Finder window where it lists DEVICES, PLACES, and SEARCH FOR.... if I click on SEARCH FOR and go to ALL MOVIES....
I was relieved to find all of my movie files still in there.
BUT HERE'S THE PROBLEM:
I was watching some of the movies... and I noticed as soon as I clicked off and started viewing a new movie... the previous movie would disappear from the ALL MOVIES FOLDER... and the number tally would decrease.
I finally realized after 10 movies that files were disappearing... or perhaps being deleted.
I used FIND to try to locate the lost files but no such luck. I can't find them anywhere.
It also appears to be only my WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER FILES that are disappearing.
What happened to my MOVIES folder? and where are these lost files going? Are they being deleted? UGH UGH UGH!
If anyone can help I'd greatly appreciate. I'm very frazzled.

Welcome to Discussions - This is the G5 forum, you seems to have a G4. I suggest you post in the [iMovie|http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=141] forum, where you will get better informed help.

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