IMovie 11 does not import iPhoto pictures correctly. (Just updated to Lion)

I used to make plenty of stopmotion and timelapse videos using iPhoto and iMovie together, and as soon as I updated to Lion, iMovie will make every uploaded photo become one of the photos in the movie. When trying to play back, it only shows a black screen also. I was trying to make a slideshow but every picture ends up being the same one.
Thank You,
ChadG

Unfortunately, from reading the iMovie Discussion Board every day religiously this seems to happen. Somehow something clears up after having a big problem for a while. One thing to try is have iPhoto 'rebuild' its Library file by hold down Command key + Option key then launch iPhoto. This will bring up a dialog box with a number of options/check boxes. I don't know enough about each one to say which ones to check or uncheck. Possibly check all of them and let iPhoto run it's course until it finishes. You will have to wait a while if you have very large iPhoto library, but it might clear up this problem of importing photos from iPhoto especially after a OS X 10.7 Lion update.

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Karsten, I mentioned "IPHOTO to IMOVIE" photo transfer.
In fact, you did not.
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Hi;
Suddenly iMovie does not import any files any more! It was working just fine before.
The screen looks like this -> http://grab.by/BaoI
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I cannot even create a new project. I get this -> http://grab.by/Bdhw
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I am on I movie 10.0.5.
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