Imovie audio disappears

Whenever I drag a clip from the clips pane onto the scrubbing board, it loses its audio. When playing the clip in the clips pane it sounds fine, but it is frustratingly silent when I actually add it to my movie. I'm on imovie 4. When exported, there's no audio in my movie either. Trouble shooted everything I can and browsed Dan Slagle's site... no luck yet.

Hi bach:
Welcome to discussions!
I know you said that you browsed Dan's site, but i really think that you do not have the audio box checked at the end of the timeline. Let's look again at what Dan shows here:
Look at the 1st solution shown:
http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/audio/1000.shtml
Please come back if I haven't helped!
Sue

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