IMovie 9 Audio Issues

iMovie 9; I have a 17-minute video with lots of edits, inserts, cutaways, still photos, music tracks, etc. Lots of tweaking. I opened the project for some final edits and now most of the b-roll cutaways have full volume audio, even though I've reduced the slider for those tracks to zero and they've worked in the past. Now they are at full volume even though the sliders remain at zero. I've tried detaching the audio, deleting the audio once detached, re-adjusting the audio slider and they still play back at 100%. Even tried going up to 200%, but it seems the Inspector dialog box has no bearing on those b-roll cutaway scenes.
Really frustrating since everything was fine before. Any ideas out there?
BTW I had other earlier issues with some audio tracks falling out of sync with the underlying video, but found the fix for that. Among other things, the Apple store geek suggested I uninstall iMovie 9 and then reinstall it along with all the updates. I did do that, plus I moved all video files to an external hard drive. Now the above problem lingers. Help! please?
Gary

I've been seeing a similar problem using iMovie '11 (version 9.0.4). I first noticed the problem when recently editing a wedding video (I was still on Snow Leopard at the time, but now on Lion). I don't recall seeing the problem on earlier projects, and am not sure what has triggered it. I didn't use speed changes.
I inserted music tracks on parts of the video and adjusted the volume on the main video track (the ambient audio) to zero. However, both audio tracks played back at their original volume (100%). My solution was to exit the project by going back to Project Library view, then clicking on (but not opening) another project. When returning to the wedding project all audio levels were OK, that is, they were playing at the levels I had set. So, the original audio was muted and only the added music could be heard. All audio fades also worked OK, where I had set them on the original audio.
Each time I made a volume change within the project I had to go through the same process in order to silence the original audio, that is, moving backwards and forwards between the Project Library view and Edit view after clicking on another project.
I recently upgraded my MacBook Pro (early 2009) to Lion (Mac OS X 10.7.2) but haven't tested this issue on iMovie '11 as yet while running Lion.
John

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As for a usb audio adapter, I am in a neon light environment and find that those adapters are more sensitive to electrical interference. Besides I want to use the headset jack as it was meant to be used!
Thats it.
Again, if anyone using an imac 27 and windows 7 64 or 32 doesnt have these problems, let us know! We are all anxious for a fix!
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