Cross dissolve 'stopped' working

For some reason, a few of my dissolve transitions have just stopped working. I can add them into the timeline just fine. But when I try to play them, the effect is not there. The video "jumps" slightly. The dissolves I used previously are still visible though. It's obviously a glitch of some sort. Just wondering if anyone has run into this before.
I really do not want to re-install FCP in this middle of this focus group project. I'm using FCP 5.

Yes Michael, there are enough handles on both sides of the split, which is actually in the middle of the clip. When I double-click the transition in the timeline after I've added it, it still comes up as the default one second in the preview window, whereas if there was not enough clip on either side, it would be less. And since the split is in the middle of a long clip (approx. 15 mins), the handles would definitely not be the issue.
Most of the other transitions seem to work, just the cross dissolve, dither, and one other dissolve (I can't think of it at the moment, and I'm no longer at work to look) are giving me this problem.
They look just like the other transitions I've added previously in the timeline, but they don't show up in the program window. The clip just jumps slightly when the marker moves across the transition.

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