Changing photo length in iMovie '08

I'm trying to make a presentation with photos set to music. I want one photo to play the entire length of one song, but whenever they only last four seconds. Whenever i try ot change the length it goes to 1 second. How do i make the photo last an entire song length

I would suggest you go to iMovie/Preferences and see how your preference is set for Time.
You can do hh:mm:ss:frames (which gives you most control. You can edit to the frame level)
Or you can select hh:mm:ss:tenths. A tenth of a second is about 3 frames so you have less control.
Once you know how you have it set, if you want to do five minutes for your photo, you would use 5:00:00 if you are using frames. You would use 5:00.0 if you are using tenths.
Note: There are 30 frames per second in the US. In Europe or a country that uses PAL, there are 25 frames per second.

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It sounds like you would like to highlight all of the images you’ve added to your project and edit the clip length on all of them at once. I found this information in the iMovie Help resource found here:
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http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#move8b2e15e3
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