Image stabilization setting by itself

I've got a strange problem in iMovie 9.0.2. I've done a picture in picture for a number of stills. I quit out of the project and then re-opened it the next day and all the PIP's have image stabilization applied to them with max zoom set to 105% with a little hand symbol inside each PIP. I don't quite understand why this happened, seems more and more like iMovie 9 (iLife 11) has a mind of it's own as I use it more and more. I didn't apply this, it just happened by itself.
So the question is, what is the image stabiliztion for -- the PIP or the still itself which is behind the PIP? Is there an advantage to using image stabilization? I've seen some people say it doesn't smooth the image out but does the opposite. I don't understand the max zoom relationship to image stabilization.

Can't tell you why it suddenly set itself, that seems odd. But the mechanism it uses to 'stabilize' video is to zoom into the video frame (cutting out stuff around the edges) then it tries to tilt the video frame left and right to keep everything oriented properly. That's why it has been zoomed in to the 105% level. It only really works for High Def video frames that already have a lot of extra space to work with and if the subject in the frame isn't in a very tight closeup but has a good deal of empty, 'whitespace' around it.

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