IMovie 5.0 has the hiccups

Please help. I created a movie from a batch of stills with transitions and effects. It took me forever but I managed to get it done and burned to a DVD back in February. Now, less than a month later, I went back to burn another copy and found that the movie no longer plays through. It gets "stuck" on the 3rd or 4th picture or on one of the transitions. The time line indicator continues to move on and the sound track plays but it sounds as though it has the hiccups. The movie plays poorly, like an old damaged film movie before it sticks. If i begin play somewhere in the middle of the movie the same sequence occurs (i.e. it doesn't appear to be a symptom related to a particular picture or place in the movie.) When I stop play, the picture where the time line indicator is positioned appears or plays. I can then resume play until it hiccups again. Thus far I've trashed my cache folders and the iMovie plist to no affect. Suggestions ?? I've rejected the baseball bat option.

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