IMovie 9.0.9 audio problem

All projects in iMovie 9.0.9 did not move over to new iMovie 10.0.8.  I went in to work on some video in iMovie 9.0.9 and found that the audio (voice) has changed to a higher speed.  Did I click on some editing button that did this, by mistake?  I can't seem to find anything to change to audio back to normal?  Can anyone please advise?  Thanks!

In addition, when I drag a sound effect clip (the one's provided with the software) they don't play either. I can hear them as a sample, but not when they are placed in the timeline.

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