Yellow Cursor not Showing up in iMovie 09

About halfway through creating a picture/video compilation of my latest vacation, iMovie 09 began to get really really sluggish.
Video thumbnail previews stopped showing up in the project and events window. I could no longer scroll to the bottom of either window. And the most annoying, I could no longer see the yellow cursor that tracks where you are in the project.
I read a bunch and tried freeing up about 25 gigs on my HD. That seemed to make it less sluggish but didn't solve any of the other problems.
I have 4 gigs of RAM and a year old Macbook Pro so performance shouldn't be the problem. I also tried deleting the preference file. That did not help.
Does anyone have any answers?!?
Thanks
Doug

I restarted several times and upgraded all the software I could. Still no luck.

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