Unable to "Split Event before selected clip"

First... I've read the other two threads that I could find by searching these forums and the recommendations there didn't help.
I have several large DV (avi) files that I imported previously from a camera. I imported them (one at a time) into iMovie 08 - each tape/avi file as a separate "event". As you can probably guess, the tapes/event were all imported as a single large clip each. I then split the large clips into separate clips by removing/rejecting a small amount of video between clips that I wanted to separate.
So far so good. Now I have 1 event for each 'tape' still and a bunch of separate clips within each 'event'. Now what I want to do is separate out each of the individual clips into separate events.
I've selected many different clips (the first, the last, several in between...) by right-clicking and selecting "select entire clip" (which it does) but the File>Split Event Before Selected Clip menu item is ALWAYS grayed out and will not let me do it.
Why?
I imported some new video (AVCHD) from a new canon hf10 and it allowed me to use this functionality just fine.
Is there something about the avi/dv file format that won't allow you to split events into multiple events?
From everything I've read, this appears to be a bug in iMovie 08 as everything seems to point to this supposedly working when doing what I've done here...
HELP!
TIA.

Believe the problem is caused by you trying to split a single clip into two events, all work done in imovie is non destructive.
I suspect the easiest workaround would be to split the event clip in QT.

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This has nothing to do with sharing and projects.
A single project can use clips from many events.
And you can make many projects from the clips in a single event.
The project does not duplicate the footage that is stored in the Event, it just references it.
A project is really a text file that is a recipe for building a movie. The recipe is executed when you "Share" or render your movie.
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