Help! Problems with transitions

A weird problem has just occured when inserting transitions (Cross dissolve and fade in and fade out) between clips. iMovie just doesnt seem to be processing it properly, throwing both clips out of synch and showing freeze frames of the clip that was meant to be dissolved or faded out from, or just flashing up a black screen.
I have happily been using iMovies for a few months now without this problem, but it has just started.
iMovies also quits unexpectedly on me when I insert an overlap transition.
Is this a bug, should I return the Mac Book to the vendor to get iMovies reloaded? (I've only had it 3 months).
Please help! Urgent project due!

*Quit iMovie.*
Locate a file named com.apple.iMovie.plist and get rid of it. iMovie will create a new one the next time it runs. Empty the trash and _run a permissions repair from the Disk Utility folder._
The files are located here:
Users/YourName**/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iMovie.plist
Also, make certain that you have ample space on the start up disk. 10 to 20 GB depending on the project.
:)Sue

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Just as David Harbsmeier indicates. Handles
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