WHAT HAPPENED TO MY PROJECTS? ALL MY CLIPS ARE GONE! HELP URGENT!

I just turned on iMovie 08 and I was met by the site of yellow exclamation marks by all of the clips in a select few of my projects, I hit the space bar (pressed play) and it started playing except the clips did not play! JUST THE AUDIO PLEASE HELP!
Message was edited by: napoleon4444

Hi Yes. I had a friend help me out with my new external hard drive. He copied itunes, i photo and imovie to the drive. Everything is fine except for imovie. All our projects will not play anymore and have black screen. I have been reading that a lot of people have been having the same issue. I cannot understand what I have to do to fix it. I have since moved back the copied imovie folders and deleted them.
I think that I understand what to do in the future. I need to send my imovie projects to the external hard drive through imovie, by exporting to the hard drive and not using the finder(as we did with iphoto and itunes.) All I really want to know is if I can fix my movie projects to play again. I do not have the original events saved anymore.
Help please....I am a beginner at this.

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