Imovie 09 not allowing me to drag pictures or transitions into project

I am having strang problems with my project in Imovie 09. About 8 min. into my project, i went to drag another photo out of one of my iphoto albums in the preview menu and when I drag it to insert...nothing happens. When I go back using time machine (to the previous day) it works...for a while then does the same thing. Not sure what to do. Everything else seems to work such as draging video and audio clips in. Just not photos, transitions. Anyone else have this problem?

I think I have figured out my problem and thought I would share. Talked with an apple-care product mgr last night and he was most helpful. Didn't charge me anything either because I had just purchased ilife 09.
We went into my iphoto library that I was using mostly to drag pics into my imovie project. I clicked on a picture and click on the "info tab" at the bottom left corner of the iphoto page. It showed the properties of the photo and the size was "0 KB". Immediately he said that probably is the problem. What I had done was imported these pics in via zip drive, and they showed up but I didn't save them to my hard drive so the minute I removed the zip drive, the thumbnail of the pic (which is what i could see) stayed, but the info left with my zip drive. So when I dragged a picture into imovie, it would go in there but Imovie wouldn't recognize it (obviously to me now)!!! This was late last night so I haven't had much time to work on it but so far so good for me.
So go to your pictures or whatever you imported into your project and verify the size. If it says 0 kb, then delete and reimport and save the pic to your desktop. Then go to size and it should be normal.
Might not solve all your problems but I am thankful!!!!!! 3 1/2 weeks of banging my head against the wall!!!!!

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