Duplicated chapter marks

I've just found out about the ability to add chapter marks to QuickTime movies, something which is incredibly useful and should be exploited more often. But I can't seem to get it to work properly...
Let's say I create a plain text document with my chapter names called "text1", and open that file in QuickTime. When I 'select all', copy, go to my movie, select 'Add to Selection and Scale', go into Movie Properties, choose Other Settings > Chapters [etc...] the little menu that pops up in the timeline shows all of my chapter names perfectly. At this point, I haven't exported "text1" from QuickTime as a text-to-text document.
When I do export "text1" as a text-to-text document and open "text1" in TextEdit, I get a list of my chapter names and timecodes - I change these timecodes to the corresponding chapter name, and save the file as "text2".
When I open "text2" in QT and go through 'select all', copy, Movie Properties [etc...] the little menu that pops up in the timeline seems to duplicate most (but not all) of my chapter marks. So for example the list would show:
Titles
Titles
Introduction
Introduction
Jo
Jo
Claire
Journey
Journey
Arrival
Arrival
Dinner
Party
Afterwards
Clicking on the 'duplicate' chapter name takes me to a point in the movie that I haven't specified. This happens *every single time* I put in the correct timecodes to the corresponding chapter name; with every single movie I try, and it's really quite frustrating.
I know it's a long post - but any help would be much appreciated from you lovely people
17" iMac G4 800Mhz   Mac OS X (10.4.4)   80GB, 768MB RAM

1. Yes, I'm saving as a .txt file.
2. Maybe I should have explained it a bit better; I think you might have misunderstood me. The first time I went through the procedure of added chapter markers, everything seemed to go okay, no error messages etc. I noticed that the chapter menu appeared in the timeline, so thought I'd have a look to see it was working okay before I actually saved the file - it was then I noticed that most of the chapter names had been duplicated.
So then I decided to try again from the beginning; creating a new .txt file with my chapter names, opening and exporting that .txt file from QuickTime. At this point I'd normally open that new file in TextEdit and input the relvant timecodes; but I decided to import that file into my movie, *as if* I'd already put in the relevant timecodes. When I did this, my chapter names appeared fine, no duplications etc. Thinking that everything was okay now, I'd open this .txt file in TextEdit and put in the relevant timecodes, save, and use that file in QT - but the chapter names are duplicated in QT.
It seems that my chapter names are only ever duplicated whenever I put in my own timecodes in the .txt file (after exporting as a text-to-text in QT). and yes, I'm using QT Pro 7.04, repaired permission etc I do appreciate your help in this.

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