Corrupt photo in iMovie

Was importing a photo into iMovie 8.0.6 and it crashed. Was never able to get it running so upgraded to 9.0.2. Now the 1st photo in my show has another photo overlaying it. If I delete it, the phantom photo moves over to the next area and still plays. It seems to be imbedded in the timeline somehow.
Any ideas????

I have a similar problem - IMovie 9.0.3. Worked on a 33 minute video for weeks. Now a photo from about 23 minutes into the video pops up during the first transition of the video ... not a very clean beginning to the movie. Must be a bug in the software. If I remove the cross dissolve transition at the beginning then it may go away ... a compromise on quality. Or when the video is complete maybe export as a movie then bring in as a full movie clip ... cut out phantom photo and put the transition in at the beginning ... will the overall quality be as good? Frustrating. I just hope that the movie doesn't get any more corrupted ... like it did a couple of times with iMovie 09.
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