IMovie '09 forgets title changes

Hi,
I'm very pleased with the new features, perfect for a quick movie when I'm not in the mood for FCP. I've discovered one snag though, where I've made changes to titles, iMovie might forget and revert back to previous text the next time a project is opened. I can't find a pattern to this behaviour though, it seems to happen at random. Has anyone else noticed something like this?

Yeah, I am having problem with Titles too. Soo I posted here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1945257&tstart=0
This is my problem & what I did, though no success guaranteed.
Something irritating happens to me when using iMovie '09.
I made a short 5 mins movie, after testing and what not & after being satisfied, I then goto Share > Export Movie, type a filename then press ENTER. A message then appeared and say "Preparing project ...". After 7 mins, the movie is completed.
Then when I played the movie, I realized I don't like the fonts of the titles. So I went back & amend the Title. Then I repeat Share > Export Movie. When I chose the same filename, it asked me whether I want to replace the old file. So, I clicked REPLACE.
When I opened up the file, it played the old movie (meaning the amendment of the title was not reflected). How come it is still playing the old file ?
Fed up, so I tried again, this time deleting the old file before sharing it again. Doesn't work, I tried deleting old file and naming a new file, it also doesn't work. I notice all this time after clicking Share > Export movie, instead of the message "Preparing Project", the message now says "Exporting Movie".
Being too fed up, this time I tried inserting some photos & then took it away & do more amendments. This time when I clicked Share > Export movie, it says "Preparing Project" and it worked !!
I can only conclude that after you clicked Share > Export movie, if the message says "Preparing Project", it will work but you got to pray that the message that comes out is not "Exporting Movie".
Is it a bug that you must make more amendments than just changing the fonts of the Titles ?
Is this a bug ? Or is there some settings that I missed out ?
Any ideas what went wrong ?
Thanks

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