Why does iMovie take almost 10 minutes to launch?

I have a 2.8ghz iMac with 4G of RAM, no projects loaded, yet iMovie launches VERY slow. The spinning beachball rotates for almost ten minutes before I finally can use the program. Tried to reinstall to no avail.
Does anyone have a recommendation?
Thank you!

Do you have a lot of Movies inside iPhoto? Some people have complained about that. iMovie starts in about 5 seconds for me.
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