Audio Tracking Suddenly Off

I'm experiencing a wierdness for the first time in iMovie. I am doing a final edit on a movie and noticing that my audio track has shifted slightly, enough to be noticeable. This was not happening a few weeks ago when I finished my last movie.
I am making a movie from three different cameras' imported clips, and moving from camera to camera, and then extending the detached audio from the camera that sounds the best, over-voicing whichever clip I'm not using audio from.
At first I thought I had inadvertently moved the detached audio clips, but upon some experimenting involving deleting and re-detatching and not even extending the audio, but turning on the clip volume again to play both, the detached audio is clearly not synced to the clip it came from.
Any ideas what could cause this to occur, and how to fix it?
Has there been an iMovie update in the last week that is causing problems?

Experiencing problems with audio in the projects also. Volume goes suddenly up or down in the middle of the clip.
Any help?
Thanks and good luck

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