Titles *Always* Over Black

Well, it's been a while since I've had to use iMovie, and while I've had great experiences with it in the past, right now, it's got me frustrated.
No matter what title I use, what settings I try to apply, my titles always appear in my project as 'Over Black'.
That is to say, when I attempt to place a title overlaying the video, it completely blacks out any video and audio for the duration of the title (it doesn't even shift the video, it just eliminates it).
On the suggestion from a similar thread, I removed all Quicktime plug-ins and re-attempted. No beans. I tried trashing my .plist files and gave it another go. No beans. I've tried applying over black and updating with it unchecked - no beans. I've gone as far as applying it, updating it to 'over black' and updating it back again - nothing.
Nada.
Any suggestions out there? Any way to downgrade from 6.0.3 to 6.0.2? I didn't have this issue before...
Thanks!
p.s. - this is with all title types and all fonts that I have tried...
eMac 1.0, 768, 160 gig, AE   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   iMovie 6.0.3
eMac 1.0    

As mentioned in my first post, of course I tried unchecking the 'over black' box.
Further updates for the night:
The movie I'm trying to work on is actually a slideshow movie exported from iPhoto - with audio.
When I export the slideshow without audio, it works just fine, and I can add the titles properly (i.e., not always over black). That would be all good and fine, but to fit the pictures to the music, I need them to fade every 4.75 seconds (or so), and iPhoto will only let me round to whole numbers.
I've been trying different audio formats for the song to see if there's some issue there... but haven't come up with anything yet.

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