Imovie 09 photo times change by themselves?

When in insert photos from iMovie to my project between movie clips, i can set the length of time they are on. however, when i go and do this to other photos, if i go back, the times are often reset. Even clicking the apply to all doesn't work on all photos imported from iphoto. Is there trick to save the presention times for photos in iMovie?
Thanks.

If you want to understand this better, I suggest you look at the iMovie Help un the topic Transition Overlap.
You can use EDIT/TRANSITION OVERLAP/ALL or EDIT/TRANSITION OVERLAP/HALF to toggle between the two modes. The Help has some diagrams which explain the difference.
(Never Mind, this answer works for iMovei 11, not iMovie 09)

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"msteinny,
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Symptom
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Environment
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BusinessObjects Enterprise XIR2 SP5 + FP5.x
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