Audio in Transitions choppy

Hello,
I just installed ILife 06 and there are 2 things that just don't work properly and Im hoping someone has an answer. One I can live with the other is really annoying. When I drag a clip into my time line, split it and apply any transition between the clips the audio becomes totally choppy and completely unusable. Ive tried adjusting the length of the transition and tried different transitions all with the same result. What has worked is extracting the audio from the clip - that becomes a real pain. Am I doing something wrong?
Also in the themes pane, when I select a theme and add pictures, the pics become completely lo-res and jagged. The pics have plenty of res in them - they look perfect in IPhoto.
I would greatly appreciate anyones insight.
Thanks.

Andrew replying to another Andrew
I "think" I figured out why when you apply the transitions the audio becomes choppy.
I was just doing this today as well. My video was recorded in 720i on my camcorder, but when I was importing it into imovie I chose the quicktime format to edit my video. So I think it was because imovie had to compress your higher quality video and that's when the sound and transition failed to work together.
So I realized that if I chose the format 720i to edit my video (matching the quality that it was recorded in) there were no audio issues and you do not have to extract the audio from it.

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