Duplicating an audio tract?

I recently used a wireless Sony microphone with my Panasonic PVGS-150 camcorder. Unfortunately, it just records mono, so when I played that clip on iMovie, there was only audio from one speaker. Is there any way to duplicate that audio to the second audio tract so it will play out of BOTH speakers?
Thanks!
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Hi Ed
Not in iMovie 5 but may be in iMovie 6 (more sound editing tools)
I would export the movie as .aiff sound file and open it in a sound
editing program. Copy left to right then save and re-import to iMovie.
There are free sound editing programs as:Audacity
Yours Bengt W

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