Trashing Clips

iMovie 6.0.2, like iMove 5, puts clips it cannot load in the IMovie trash, where they are still visible and even play. If you restore these by dragging them to the clips pane and resinsert them in the movie, it plays normally. This process is laborious because the names you assigned do not show in the trash, and some of your edits are lost. When you save it and reload it the clips are back in the trash.This is unacceptable. There seems to be no way to export clip and reimport, and there should be.
This is a bug, not a feature. I think there is a aorkaround; save the movie to IDVD; it is saved correctly in a non-obvious place. You can reimport that and do more edits (painfful). I tried deleting prefernces and that didn't work.
Not that you'll ever find the movie to do this; it is saved on the system disk in an obscure directory, not even on the volume and directory you were working from. Who told these people to make assumptions? What is his, Windows?
This is far below pple standards and brings up a deeper problem, which is that iMovie does not meet Mac guidelins. Who asked it to save my movie in a place of its own choosing, instead of where I was orking? This is a Windows thing. The Mac philosophy is that the customer is always right; the Windows philosophy is that the customer made an error. Any programmer with that Attitude has no business working for Apple.
So you can't load my ;cips? Figure it out, sonny. If you can't your succesor will.
Let's get back on the Macintosh Way. Write a letter to Steve. At least he understands what a Macintosh is about.

Owen, just so you have a sense of what the problem is and what it isn't, your description suggests an underlying problem that's causing iMovie to behave very strangely for you. Almost everything you said does not occur normally.
You should be able, for example, to move clips from the iMovie Trash to the Timeline/Clips pane, save the project, and have them stay where you put them.
There seems to be no way to export clip and reimport, and there should be.
Before exporting to a Full Quality movie, turn on the "Share Selected Clips Only" checkbox in the export dialog window. Then import THAT movie.
...not that you'll ever find the movie to do this; it is saved on the system disk in an obscure directory,
iMovie always saves a project exactly where we place it when created. iDVD does not, at least not when the iDVD project is created from within iMovie. If you tell iMovie to tell iDVD to create an iDVD project, iDVD places the new iDVD project loose in the Documents folder of the startup disk. (I agree iDVD should ask where to save it. I wouldn't call that location obscure, however.)
If you create a new iDVD project from within iDVD, it asks where to save it, as you wish. Do that to control the iDVD project location, then drag the iMovie project into the iDVD window.
But iDVD doesn't normally create a movie you can import to iMovie, so I'm not sure exactly what movie you are referring to. If you think it's important, please say.
As Matti suggested, the most likely cause of the Trash problem is that the project is stored on an external disk that hasn't been properly formatted. It must use the Mac OS Extended disk format for iMovie to reliably save to the disk. It sounds like the project hasn't been saved properly after you drag clips from the Trash, so clips end up back in the Trash when you re-open the project.
More about the disk format here, including notes about third-party software which can mess up iMovie:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2920540#2920540
Karl

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    -rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 105600000 11 Dec 10:45 ./.Trash/Clip 251.dv
    -rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 88560000 11 Dec 10:44 ./.Trash/Clip 252.dv
    -rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 91560000 11 Dec 10:45 ./.Trash/Clip 253.dv
    -rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 53760000 11 Dec 10:45 ./.Trash/Clip 254.dv
    -rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 61320000 11 Dec 10:45 ./.Trash/Clip 255.dv
    -rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 179640000 11 Dec 10:46 ./.Trash/Clip 256.dv
    -rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 197880000 11 Dec 10:47 ./.Trash/Clip 257.dv
    -rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 69960000 11 Dec 10:47 ./.Trash/Clip 258.dv
    -rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 48720000 11 Dec 10:47 ./.Trash/Clip 259.dv
    -rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 146280000 11 Dec 10:42 ./.Trash/Clip 260.dv
    -rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 45120000 11 Dec 10:42 ./.Trash/Clip 261.dv
    -rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 78000000 11 Dec 10:42 ./.Trash/Clip 262.dv
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    -rw-r--r-- 1 aspencer aspencer 40200000 11 Dec 10:44 ./.Trash/Clip 266.dv
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    Karl
    --end quote--
    Sue

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