Black frame flash when cross-fading still photographs

Hi, thanks for theuseful answers to questions. I have not seen this one, forgive me if it is somewhere. I am in iMovie HD 6.03 with a MacBook Pro.
When I cross-dissolve two still pictures ( with Ken Burns Effect on) I am left with a flash on the incoming picture, near the beginning. It is a black frame I can't remove, because doign so will un-render the dissolve! What a Catch 22, adn what a weird glitch!
I guess the frame comes in where the transition ends, but why would it do that? It is very evident when I play the series of crossfaded stills, it comes out as a big flash on each incoming pic. Does anyone have any workarounds or suggestions for applying the crossdissolve in a different way to avoid this? Or a cosmetic fix? Or maybe I just fade out and back in, what a drag for a whole bunch of pix.
thanks in advance,
maynemoon.
thanks so much.

Hi maneymoon:
Welcome to discussions!
If you delete the transition, you can always put it
back in without any problems.
Sue
Thanks for the welcome, Sue! I am indeed new, but not new to Macs and audio. But this is my first iMovie experience.
As to your answer, yes, I know I can delete the transition and re-apply, but when I reapply it, I still have the extra frame problem no matter what. ( I was trying to manually remove the extra black frame the transition left me with)
I am mainly wanting not get this black flash when I do a crossfade between two still pictures, or why I am getting it at all.
I want to use cross-dissolve transitions between the pictures, but can't get rid of the danged flash! thanks.

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