Failed movie export, help

I have a project I am working on that is causing me grief. The movie clips started out as Sanyo Xacti HD1000 1080i clips. That still doesn't seem to work with QuickTime above version 7.1.6 (and I had trouble een with that). I ran the clips through MPEG Stream Clip turning them into 720p clips and those play fine in QT Player and iMovie 08 though sometimes they're a bit jerky in iMovie 08 playback for reason I don't get. The proejct starts off with a cross-fade in, introl music at the start of the first photograph, a set of Ken Burns' photos with voice over and a couple transitions. Then the music fades and the first video clip should start. What happens when I export a movie using any of the iMovie export menu options is that the first clip does not start though the audio is playing just fine. The video doesn't start to play properly until about 2/3rds into the entire video and then it seems fine.
Why is my video failing to play properly? What can I do to fix this? I cannot re-shoot the video. This is very frustrating.
** Ken **

Whatever was wrong isn't now. I don't have an explanation of why it's working properly now, but it is.
I have noticed that iMovie can be a bit flakey about clips it plays and does not play. For example, I crated a clip of slides that are positioned in different locations. THe process went like this:
1. Create a single slide slideshow with fade in and fade out for each slide using iMovie 08.
2. Export the movies I just made in step 1.
4. Create a movie of a black background that is the appropriate length for the entire slideshow clip and proper size (a 720p clip) and export the clip. In this case that is a 10 second clip with a 9 second voiceover.
5. In QT Player (Pro version of QT) open the movies exported in #2 and #4.
6. Select one of the individual slideshows, select all, and copy
7. Go to the background movie, place the cursor at the appropriate start point, do Edit->Add Movie
8. In movie Properties go to the Visual Settings for the just added clip and re-position (scaling was not needed since they were sized properly already) the track to where it should be.
9. Repeat steps 6, 7, and 8 for the remaining slideshow clips.
10. After all slides have been added save the movie as a self-contained movie.
This worked great. I had a little MOV file that played just fine. But when I imported it into iMovie 08 the new movie did not play properly. The slides never appeared.
I returned to QT Player and exported the movie as a MP4/h.264 file and re-imported that into iMovie 08 and it worked fine. At least in this case iMovie had a problem with the multiple video tracks that were positioned in different locations in time and space relative to the first (background) track.
** Ken **

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