IMovie 11 not importing iPhoto images

Hi!
Since installing iLife 11 I can no longer import iPhoto images into my iMovie projects. Here's the detail:
I select a photo from my iPhoto collection using the multimedia navigator in the bottom right-hand corner of iMovie. I drag an icon of the photo into my iMovie project. The icon appears a few seconds later in the project. But when I play the project, the photo is not shown, the previous sequence freezes for the duration of the time that the image was meant to appear. What's wrong?
Similarly, the iMovie function which is supposed to identify iPhoto images corresponding to the event I am working on, does not work.
I have an Intel iMac and the latest versions of Snow Leopard, iMovie and iPhoto (version iLife 11).
I am naively shocked that two iLife programmes do not interact seamlessly.
Thanks in advance for taking time to help me!
eamann

JungleDoctor wrote:
Anyway in my searches to fix this problem, I noted that one contributor imports pics to imovie by a novel method. They export the image from iPhoto or Aperture to the desktop, then drag the image from the desktop onto the iMovie timeline. So I tried that and PRESTO, the image played perfectly. I've applied this workaround several times in the last half hour with images from iPhoto and Aperture , and it continues to work.
John - that's an excellent workaround which I've used on the odd occasion. But be aware that if you subsequently move the image from the Desktop to another location, the project may lose track of it (the project links to the image file). If you right-click on the image in the project before moving it, then select Reveal in Finder, you will be taken to Desktop in Finder. But if you do the same after moving the image, Reveal in Finder doesn't work, that is, nothing happens. The image may still be viewable in the project, but I'm not sure that it will always remain that way.
What I do with problem images in iPhoto is drag them to the Desktop, then open in Preview. From Preview I then Save As a jpeg file (even though it may already be in jpeg format). Finally, I re-import the saved image to iPhoto and use that image in iMovie - secure in the knowledge that I'm unlikely to move it again once stored in iPhoto. Re-saving images in Preview seems to help when they are not playing well with iMovie (or iPhoto for that matter).
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