Images with attached audio clips and slideshows

My old Minolta camera could save an audio WAV file with an image, but I've never been successful in using the audio file (same name as the image) in iPhoto.  I'm just starting out playing with Aperature 3 and see that I can import these easily.  However, when I try to make a slideshow, some of the clips need to be trimmed for length, noise, etc.  In the Info Inspector I can easily 'trim' the clip to what I want, but I don't seem to be able to do anything with it.  When setting up the slideshow, I can see all the WAV files when I click on the Music Note button, the edited clip length shows, and plays as it did in the Info Inspector.  But when dragging the file to the correct image in the slideshow, only the original WAV file gets used and not the trimmed one.  I suppose I can make the original files work by fiddling with the secondary audio strip by fading in and truncating, but why can't I just use the new metadata?  This make any sense to anyone and can anyone help this beginner?  Thanks

Some details to be "clear"
on a mac Mini (snowleopard /ilife11iMovie 904) or on a MacbookPro (Lion /iLife11iMovie904)
a iMovie project (video coming from a SonyCam  as usually without problems)is going well at the begining :it's possible to add iTunes imported files or external micro recorded sounds  and everything OK !!
but without apparent reason latter on in the project it becomes impossible to do the same operations :
the track is here, the waves are visible  but no sound on skimming or playing  whatever are the settings ??
the sources are still ok (files in iTunes or files audio in the iMovieProject  content )
the links seem to be broken !
but when , how does it happen and how fix it??
on a french forum this question seems to be frequent but not resolved  !!
Thks for any help or advice

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