Transferring an iMovie Project to a New Computer

I edited a short film for an Apple sponsored "iMovie Fest" at my university. They provided a MacBook Pro for me to work on, as I had to do the project in iMovie '08. After I finished the project and submitted it (as a .m4v file), I moved everything to my external hard drive -- iMovie Project files and iMovie Event files -- all at once and did not edit or add anything after that. The MacBook Pro was returned to Apple.
The issue at hand is that when I attempt to open the Project file on another computer (in this case, an iMac), it opens iMovie '08, but does not load the project. In my first attempt, it loaded my Event files (so all the raw footage was there) but not the Project. A second attempt a few days later (on the same machine), it loaded neither the Project nor the Event files (however I could upload individual movie files with the 'File' dropdown menu).
The folders they are contained in are labeled as they were when I edited the film at the beginning (iMovie Events, iMovie Projects). Is there something that I did wrong? Is there a way to retrieve the Project information so I don't have to reedit the film?

Great info roddy. One part though where you wrote
Double click this domain file to launch iWeb.
Although functional this is not necessary. Would not want to confuse OP into thinking the procedure of double-clicking the Domain file is required everytime the desire to open app is present. _Look Here_ for complete Apple documentation. Given that information coupled with your suggestion OP could copy the Domain file to anywhere on their new Mac and then double-clicking Domain file would be +absolutely required+ to open project in iWeb. This would then set new location of Domain file where afterwards simply launching iWeb app from dock, app folder or otherwise would open the Domain file, wherever it was located. Your suggestion mentioned copying Domain to equivalent location of ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb and in doing so double-clicking is not required since this is the default location iWeb looks for the Domain file at anyway.

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