Argh! iMovie HD keeps stalling/freezing ...

I am trying to work on my movie, which is made up entirely of stills (from Photoshop, imported as JPEGS). I have had no problems up until today. Now the thing keeps freezing. I can edit the clips and everything in the timeline, but as soon as I try to play it back (either in full screen mode or not) it stalls, doesn't play smoothly, and sometimes freezes. I have to play it to see if it's done what I want, but when I try ... everything seems to go up in flames.
My movie is not that big, really, only 222.7MB so far, and only around 2.5 minutes long. I do have a lot of overlapping audio clips, but that shouldn't make it freeze like this, should it?
Can anyone give me any tips? I'm using iMovie HD 5.0.1 on my college's computers ...

I do have a lot of overlapping audio clips, but that shouldn't make it freeze like this, should it?
iMovie shouldn't stutter during playback, but sometimes it does. It's probably not caused by the overlapping audio. It's probably caused by the NUMBER of audio clips in your timeline. At some number of audio clips, the audio will start stuttering, causing the symptoms you describe. As you add more audio clips, it gets worse.
(The words often used to describe this problem are "stutter" and "pause". "Freeze" suggests the application permanently stops responding. iMovie sometimes appears to freeze when it stutters, but it will eventually resume, then stutter again, and again.)
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=495288&tstart=0
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