Change Duration of set of still clips

I'm trying to change the duration of 1,115 still photo clips in the timeline (about 2.2mb jpegs each).  After about 2.5 hours of effort to get them into the timeline I've selected them all and hit control D to highlight the duration thing in the middle of the screen.  I type in 46.45 so that all those clips will play back close to 24fps and it changes to 14 hours.  I tried typing in 2 minutes = 8 hours, then 10 minutes = 8 hours.  I don't get it.  No matter what number I type into the duration it changes by hours.
Oh yeah, I changed the import setting for still clips to the lowest possible amount of time and it still brought them into the timeline at 4 sec. each.
Help.  Is there some special way to get the duration to stay what you type into it?
I know I'm running FCPX on a bare bones system but it really shouldn't take two days to make a 45 second timelapse.
MacBook Pro Intel core 2 duo 2.4 Ghz, 4GB RAM, Gforce 8600M GT

The default length for stills is settable in the FCP X  Preferences Window under the Edit tab.  I believe 4 sec is the number set as default when you got the program.  One way you might be able to do it is to select all the clips in the timeline (pictures that is), then make them into a new compound clip.  Then select the compound clip and hit COMMAND R (for the re-timing frame to pop up).  Drag the retiming handle at near the top right (2 small vertical bars) of the selected compound clip to the length of time you want.  I tried this with retiming video clips made into a compound clip and it works, so I am thinking it will probably also work with stills.  Hope this helps.
stephen

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