Audio - Extracting, Unextracting, Split Edits

Hey, there:
I've used iMovie 3 & 4 in the past for animated photos/slideshows for friends' wedding rehearsals - taking photos and using various fx and Ken Burns effect.
Now I want to add video into the mix - my thought was to use a mix of stills and cut back and forth between them and the video. I've gone ahead and broken-up the video interview (45 minutes) into 40 clips, one for each question/section, and imported all the photos into iPhoto (which crashed every 5-10 minutes due to external editing in Photoshop - nice stablility, Apple!).
My problem is confusion over doing true split edits; I want to be able to:
- arrange the video in logical order, trimming the clips as need be
- adding video title screens to ask questions
(BTW - how to do still, centered titles w/ no fades? I'm doing them in Photoshop for now.)
- overlaying photos on top of video, so that you get:
TITLE -- VIDEO -- PHOTO -- VIDEO, with original video audio underneath, possibly coming in early under the Title Card.
I guess I just want to be able to cut back and forth between photo and video without losing sync,
It seems like the best way may be to use the "paste over at playhead" to insert the stills at the playhead, but this overwrites the original clip and splits the audio. Plus, it takes a ton of time - I'm working on a 2.0 GHz Intel iMac and this is taking 10 minutes to insert a 5-second title into a 30-second video clip!
I've also thought about duplicating all my clips and letting it split the audio on each overnight; I'd then have the originals plus clips with extracted audio, but it won't let me drag the video AND audio into the clip bin, just the video. So, nope.
Also - is there any way of simultaneously trimming a split audio and video? I can do both separately, but it doesn't keep the sync even when I lock the audio. I can drag them when they're locked, but not edit both in sync.
This is completely frustrating - I feel screwed!
Thanks in advance -
-Mark-
iMac 20", 2 GHz Intel Dual Core Mac OS X (10.4.4)
Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Hi, Mark!
I can't answer all of your questions, but whenever I am going to do "paste overs," I always extract the audio from my main track FIRST. It may take awhile depending on the length of your base clip, but I think you'll find this will make your inserts go a LOT faster.
Also, I can't answer this definitively without the application open in front of me, but I think you can do title without fades by simply setting the fade slider for the effect to zero. Alternatively, you can create a regular title complete with fades then, while watching it in the main iMovie window, pause it when your title is showing fully and choose the menu command "CREATE STILL CLIP FROM VIDEO" (I forget which menu header it's under, but it shouldn't be hard to find). Then, you can set the duration of that still to last as long as you'd like.

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