How Do you Replace Still Clips in the Timeline?

I have a slide show set up with KB on and fades in and out and I need to replace some of the images. I can't seem to replace any of my images in the timeline, now. I tried the Paste Over at Playhead, but that doesn't seem to work. Nothing happens.
Can this be done? Am I missing something?
Thanks.
Robert

It shouldn't be doing that. Sometimes permissions and preferences get corrupted and need to be repaired or deleted.
Do this common maintenance: To delete preferences, close iMovie and trash the file named com.apple.iMovie.plist found in User (the house icon)/Library/Preferences. Then repair permissions by using the Utilities/Disk Utility app on your Mac. Open Disk Utility and select your hard drive icon at the top of the left side bar of the Disk Utility window. Then click on the repair permissions button and wait a few minutes while permissions are repaired. When it is finished, restart your computer and relaunch iMovie and see if you still have the editing problem. iMovie will recreate the plist file that you deleted.
One caution: Do not empty the project trash until your project is completely finished, or you will be unable to edit a photo that has had the KB effect applied to it. You would have to reimport the photo to work on it again. This is due to a bug in iM6.

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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 14:29:37 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: How do you move a sound clip in the timeline?
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