Cant seem to edit iMovie09 project

My 9 year old son is putting together a party invitation for his friends and is using iMovie09. We are very new to Apple and are just learning, but we are having trouble with his project. He has managed to create a project with a number of pictures from iPhoto and even a video clip from iMovie. After coming back to it after a couple of days he tried to edit the project and add more pictures. Every time he tried to add a picture from iPhoto two things happened: 1) No matter which picture he selected and dragged across it always ended up being the first picture he had selected that showed up in the project strip 2) When he played the project the new addition never showed anyway! We are very frustrated and confused and I can't seem to find an answer for him. His birthday is fast approaching. Can anybody help?

I've posted this possible solution a number of times lately and it has helped some users. Probably the first thing to try when iMovie misbehaves is to delete (trash) iMovie's preference file. It is found in your User>Library>Preferences folder and is named "com.apple.iMovie8.plist". Ensure that iMovie is closed before trashing the file.
Trashing the file will not damage your project in any way, but may correct issues with iMovie. When iMovie is next opened it will create a new .plist file with the default settings. You may need to change some settings to suit your own preference. To do this go to the Menu item iMovie and select Preferences.
Hope this helps!

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