How do I train Slippery Audio Clips?

I'm guessing this one has an easy answer. When I have the audio track open and I wish to lay down a piece of audio under video (I've already extracted the audio and it's a stand alone piece of audio), I place the playhead where I want the piece of audio to appear, but when I click "paste" the piece of audio always ends up a few inches (or a few shots) away from the playhead (so I have to "inch" it back to its proper place using the playhead). Why does this happen and how can I paste audio clips exactly where I want them?
Diana

Interestingly, today I needed to copy and paste an audio clip, and it pasted quite close to the original. Last night, all the pasted clips ended up near the end of the movie.
I find that the clips can be dragged fairly quickly if dragged to the edge of the iMovie window, but if you do that too quickly, your clip will suddenly end up far to the left of where you want it.
It took me several attempts to achieve better control when moving a clip, but it is not the ideal solution.

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