IMovie 2011 - cannot adjust music track points

Hi there, I have started a new project and when I add a music track to accompany the video / photo montage, the audio appears as a green envelope around the images, and I cannot adjust start, or end points of the audio. I am used to seeing the audio appear as a small bar under the video / images, but this time it envelopes the entire video.
I am using an external drive to save the project, and my music is on my internal drive, is that the reason? I have used non iTunes purchased music within iTunes.
Any thoughts?

This is exactly the problem I have but using iMovie 2011 on my laptop. This has only just started happening.
http://granniethegeek.com/2012/04/19/troubleshooting-the-placement-of-the-audio- clip-in-the-imovie-ipad-app/

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