Unreadable project in imovie HD...how can i recover files?!

sorry for my very bad english.
i've just bought few days ago ilife 06 cause i needed imovie HD....in 5 days working on a new project i had lots of problems: the program was crashing most of the time i was trying to add transitions to some photos...no problem with the .avi files i was working on, lots of problems with the stills. and then half an our ago the program did not allowed me anymore to save the project...then when trying to add a transition the program crushed, and when i've tried to open back the project there was a note saying that the project is ureadable....when this use to happen with previous versions od imovie it wad easy...just copying the Media files...but in these new imovie Hd there are no project folders.....i have to solve this problem in no more than 2 days....i have a very important deadline and i really don't know what to do....please somebody help me!!! i'm desperate!!

The iMovie 6 project has changed from what it was in iMovie 4 and earlier. Instead of saving the project inside a folder, the project is saved inside a Finder "package". A package is a special kind of folder that looks and acts like a file, but it can hold other files and folders.
To look inside the project package, Control-click on the package in the Finder and choose "Show Package Contents" from the popUp menu. A window will open showing the files and folders inside the package. The Media folder is the same as the Media folder of earlier projects.
• There are two project files in the package. One is the current version of the project, the one you last saved. The other, which has a tilde character (~) in its name, is a backup. It's the project as it was BEFORE you last saved. When you saved, the previous version of the project file was stored in the file with the tilde.
You may be able to use that tilde file to rescue the project. How to is described here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2318851#2318851
• If that doesn't work, double-click on the "Timeline Movie.mov" that's inside the "Cache" folder. It will open in QuickTime Player. If it plays okay you can import it to a new iMovie 6 project. Everything from Project A will be imported as a single clip into Project B.
• The problems you have suggest something is wrong with iMovie 6 on your Mac. There are several possibilities. 1) The disk format is wrong for the disk the project resides on; 2) There are third-party iMovie plug-ins and QuickTime add-ons that are creating problems for iMovie, perhaps software you used in an earlier version of iMovie.
To check for these problems, see this note:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2920540#2920540
Good luck!
Karl

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