IMovie '08 exporting problem

I don't know if this question was asked before, but my movie plays perfectly normally when i play it in imovie, but after i export it, when i open it in itunes i just get a black image with music playing. can someone tell me what is wrong with it? i've uploaded it to youtube so you can see what i mean.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CL46ZQaPb0

I'm really getting annoyed. I've spent the last week figuring out how to use imovie '08, edited a bunch of important clips together, fiddles with everthing, added titles, etc...and now I get this black screen over one of the prime clips of the movie. Its a 3 and a half minute movie that has taken me a week to perfect.
It is incredibly frustrating, and no one here has a real solution, and none of the mac people have stepped up to explain anything.
This movie means alot to my career, and I need it fixed soon. I've tried EVERYTHING. It looks great in imovie but soon as I export... An earlier version worked fine, but I added two more clips, and now those clips wok fine, but another one, the important one only has sound over a black screen.
HELP!

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