What is THE most ideal way to use IMovie?

Would like to learn how to use this program in the way that it was meant to be used. Am tired of not being able to do the things I imagine doing... so it's time to get real. My first gripe is the beachball thing when turning the application on. If I wanted to speed up the whole process do I have to have more than 4 gigs RAM?
I have probably been using this program the wrong way right from the start. I always like to have all the movies loaded into the program but obviously, this makes it really slow. Does anyone know how to limit IMovie on start up so that it only loads what you want loaded into it? And then... is there a better way to audition movies from the complete collection? Something outside the program?
Where does my journey begin?
Thanks-B

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