IMOVIE 08 - Won't import video made from KEYNOTE 08

I have exported my slides made on Keynote 08 in every video codec that imovie supposidly supports, DV, MPEG-4, .MOV and it still wont open it. Thank god that when I downloaded imovie HD 06, that IT is able to open every file that I saved as above. I thought that i could then create the project in 06 and just use imovie 08 to do the editing. -WRONG. It won't open any other project other than its own. This is the WORST piece of software and implementation of an upgrade yet. I called apple support and all they can say right now is, "yes I have tried to reproduce this and you are right, I'll let them know."

I have Exactly the same problem - I've even gone as far as to record the slideshow in Keynote and then try to import it into iMovie. Nothing.
To top it off I have an added problem with Keynote recording - that I can't get it to record my voice PLUS the quicktime playback pauses the image & you have to prompt the quicktime player to advance to the next slide.
Apple; if you read this, I find it amazing that you have just sold me (two updated) packages iLife & iWork which don't work together and don't do what the older versions of these programes did...

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