Video FX not applying to clips

Hi all - yesterday I exported a clip from Flash as a quicktime movie, imported it into a new project, then brought in some other existing clips. When I tried to add Video FX to the other clip, in the preview it looked fine, but when I hit "apply", the clip would either turn to black or take the image from the following clip. I tried this with several different FX and got the same results. I saved the project and shut off imovie, then last night, I powered the computer down. This morning, I am getting the same resuts, even with existing movies I have already made!!
I attribute this behavior to me adding some demo FX that I installed yesterday. Today I took all of the demo plugins out of my imovie library. After doing this, I am still getting this problem. It is like I have messed up my native FX by installing these demo FX.
Does anyone have any suggestions how I can clean this mess up or what I am doing wrong?

FYI - I went into my library an deleted all imovie preferences files. This solved the problem.

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