Unable to move events and projects to anywhere other than root directory on external drive

So I bought myself a nice, big, fat and juicy external RAID box and set about moving all my iMovie projects and events from my puny internal iMac drive.
I've tried to follow all the advice found on Apple Discussions concerning moving them from within iMovie by dragging to the new drive, but try as I might, I cannot find a way to drag to a sub-folder. iMovie INSISTS on putting my data into folders directly on my root, top level of the external drive. That seems rather ridiculous, considering that all I'm trying to do is recreate the "Movies" folder I had on my internal drive, which is nested within several folders itself.
Please, someone, tell me there is a way to tell iMovie to move the folders iMovie Drop Box, iMovie Events, iMovie Projects, and iMovie Sharing INSIDE a folder on my root called iMovie. Right now, they're sitting out in the elements on the top level, and my OCD is going bananas...
Aloha,
clarkkent61564

The iMovie Projects folder and the iMovie Events folder need to be at the top level of an external drive for iMovie to see it.
The iMovie Projects folder can have subfolders within it if you want.

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