IMovie Importing Photos Improperly -- Mixing Thumbnail/Footage

I have iMovie 9 -- a bit old, I know, but that's what the church has for me to work with. I am trying to create a slideshow using images pulled from a Keynote presentation, but every time I import specific images -- a little over half of what I have to use -- iMovie screws them up. It will either use the right thumbnail and play the wrong image or have the wrong thumbnail and play the right image. It typically happens to two or three in a row, and it is consistent which ones do which with which other images/thumbnails. *deep breath* I have tried renaming the images, deleting the cache, and deleting every single folder involved with iMovie that I can access under my profile. Every time I start over, the same problem happens. WHAT IS GOING ON?!
P.S. And no, I don't want to just use keynote for my slideshow. We are using ProPresenter for other parts of the service and we want to cut out keynote for several reasons. It won't import straight to ProPresenter (3), but we want movement, so I am trying to make it into a movie.

I keep forgetting details. There was one other symptom: Several images became mere copies of another file when I imported the list. They had the same thumbnail and actual display of another file. When I opened the location in Finder, it showed the proper image, but it made no difference in iMovie.

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Check your camera date - typically this is due to the event sorting in to an expected place due to incorrect the incorrect dates
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I see other pictures but not these.
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They need to stop hiring laid off MS workers.
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Closed the imovie and reopend it and it is shown there.
Now why not the first time?
I thought only with MS I had to reboot.
I guess not
There is no way to delete this previous question either.
Sorry to waste your time.
Have a good day, except for Apple, who should know better
R

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Fix #2
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