Audio shift when exporting to quicktime

Frustrated! Everytime I export my iMovie in iMovie 09, the audio shifts at some point in the movie. I dont know why. I've tried several different edits and each time it shifts in a different place. Shift= audio way out of sync with video.
Can anyone help?
Thanks.

feyeter I've posted a response on the other thread you created.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9316975#9316975

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