Urgent IMOVIE '08 question...

Hello,
I've spent the past several hours creating a slideshow of many images, videos, and songs in iMovie '08.
The images, videos, and songs are all from my external hard drive that I have plugged into my computer.
I am trying to make it so that I can save the iMovie project onto my external hard drive and that I'll be able to open it on another computer.
So far, no luck. When I attempt to open it on another computer, "My First Project" is all that will show....no sign of the actual slideshow I've created.
I just spent an hour waiting for iMovie to export the movie to my external drive, and it's just an m4V file that cannot be edited..I am not done with the project, I'd like to be able to work on it/open it again...
Any ideas???
Thank you,
John

Here is how you do it.
In iMovie, click View/Events By Volume.
You should see your Event in the Event Source List on the pane at the bottom left of iMovie. You should also see an icon for your external drive there. Drag and drop the icon for your Event onto the icon for the external drive. (From your post, it says these are already on the external drive. This is OK if the Project will work on your first computer.)
Now, open the Movies/iMovie Projects/ folder. Find your Project file. It will have your Project's Name with the extension .RCPROJECT. Copy this file to your external drive.
When you get to the other computer, plug in the external drive. Drag the Project file to the Movies/iMovie Projects/ folder on the other computer. Leave everything else on the external drive.
Start up iMovie and your project should open.

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