Videos in iPhoto do not appear in iMovie event browser

After successfully importing 60 or so video clips into imovie:
Clips appear and function normally in iPhoto.
Clips do not appear in iMovie event browser unless they are 4 seconds in length or less.
Previous imports from the same camera worked fine.
It started happening after the most recent software updates.

Deleting the prefs did for it to activate this scan:
Upadating iPhoto video events
Scanning for new videos in your iPhoto library
But it still shows no videos in the iPhoto Video part of the Event Libary. I am using iPhoto 8.0.6 under MacOS 10.7.5.
When I choose Show Date Ranges in Events list under iMovie preferences, it shows Feb 24, 2008. What does that mean? What happened on Feb 24, 2008? I have over 1000 movies in my iPhoto Library ranging from 2005 to present.
Any other ideas? Someone suggested removing the "&" symbol from the titles of Events, which I did. Should i also remove the "&" symbol from the titles of the photos and movies? What about other symbols like ":". It seems crazy that Apple would make their software so fragile that ASCII symbols could break it.
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