Accidentally sliced up the timeline

I'm new to FCE 4, and I was importing still images into the timeline when I suddenly noticed that all the audio and visual tracks had been sliced from top to bottom into four different sections and moved apart from each other.
I must have inadvertently hit some key but I have absolutely no idea what I might have done to cause this. It was as if I had cut it so that all the video and audio tracks were split from the same point and then dragged away from each other. Image stills and audio were cut, with one sliver on one side and then the remaining image / audio on the other, a few seconds later along the timeline.
At first I thought it was just because my screen needed to be refreshed, but when I opened up the document again, it was still there.
Can anyone tell me what might have caused this? I would really like to avoid that happening again.

Sounds like you may have performed an INSERT edit when you needed to perform an OVERWRITE edit.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2616735&tstart=15
-DH

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