Balancing iMovie4 Voice & Music Tracks: QT 6 Pro, or GB1?

Anyone here with iMovie 4, QT 6 Pro, & GB 1 experience? Or any experience with any version of the three?
I have an iM4 project with 1 voice & 1 music track. For the music track, I imported 7 songs from a CD into iTunes. The songs overpowered the voice. I increased the voice track by doubling the clips @ 150%, each. The songs still overpowered the voice, so I had to reduce the song volumes & used GB1 to do it. Now, the song volumes are too low, esp. when there is no voice between clips in the video track.
In other words, I'm trying to achieve a satisfactory balance between my voice & music tracks.
I've tried to compensate in iM4, with little effect, but readjusting song volume in GB1 is hit or miss, since I can't (I don't think) handle both voice & song in GB1. Well, maybe I can, but it seems too complicated, with exporting to GB1 & exporting back to iTunes (iM4, since what's in iTunes automatically is in iM4).
If I sound confused, I am. However, I have a QuickTime 6 Pro CD that I could load & I understand QT Pro can easily balance voice & music tracks, & since QT & iMovie are joined at the hip, that may be the easiest way to go.
The hitch: I haven't opened the package I received the QT Pro 6 CD in, because GB1, which I already have, works in adjusting music volume. I can get a $50 refund if I return the package unopened. (I'm cheap.)
Question: Should I go ahead with QT 6 Pro, which seems the easiest way to get to where I want, and be out the $50, or should I try going with GB1 to get the same result, but in a more complicated way?
The thing about GB1 (& I'm a newbie to it) is that I imported the 7 songs as 7 tracks into "My Song." I think I need to create a new song for each of the 7. Also, I'll probably have to import each voice track as a separate song, as well. It sounds very complicated to me, but it may not be as complicated as I think.
Comments?

Lennart,
I have David Pogue's Missing Manual book on iMovie 4, which covers the material in the link you provided. I cannot reduce the volume of imported music in iMovie 4. Even when I've augmented my voice track to 300% by copying & pasting over the voice track. iM4 just doesn't do the job. I reduce music volume to 10%, & it's just as loud as at 100%, so I've got to look at some other app to do the job.
GarageBand reduced the volume, but by too much & I don't want to have to go back & forth between GB & iM4. The only way I get confirmation is by burning a DVD & that gets tedious & expensive.
I have QuickTime 6 Pro & I understand (I think) that I can do the balancing of voice & music tracks, there. My problem is, I don't understand how to do that in QT 6 Pro. I shared (exported) my test project to QT & have a .dv file that includes only video & voice.
I created an iMovie 4 project that has only the music track & exported it to QT as a .dv file, also. I can't seem to get the music .dv file into the video/voice .dv file so I can balance the voice & music tracks.
QT won't let me import a music file directly; when I do an open in QT, the file I want to import is grayed out. Maybe I should go to the QT Forum.

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