IMovie 09 music tracks

I have marked the beats in the music track where I want the next picture to show.  This worked fine until I went to Project properties to add a "cross dissolve". This caused all the pictures to shift later.  Did I have to add the dissolve before I marked the music track for beats or am I doing something else wrong?
I have checked "snap to beats" in the View menu.
Mary Lou

Here is one idea...
Close iMovie
FIRST, make a backup copy of your project file, so if this does not work, at least it does not make it worse.
Right click on the project in finder (in the iMovie projects folder) and click 'Show Package Contents'
Delete the 'Thumbnails' file
Open iMovie and it should rebuild this file.
If this does not work, you could try deleting the iMovie plist file (Preferences file) and see if that helps.
By the way, I have not had to fix a corrupted file myself. I found these ideas by doing a keyword search on these discussions with the keyword "corrupt project file". If you do the same, you may find additional ideas. Also, you can try a google search and see if anyone has posted about this on other sites. Good luck.

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