IMovie is repeating clips after the timeline is over! HELP!!

I have a 40 minute iMovie project. At the end of the 40 minutes, imovie continues, past the end of the timeline, and is repeating video from earlier in the project(about 10 minutes earlier) without any audio, as I extracted the audio to make way for a soundtrack. I tried putting in a blank clip, as well as deleting all of my chapter markers, but it's still doing that. How do I stop it? This is important, as this project is making me $600, and I need to correct it quickly!

Tried quitting iMovie and restarting to see if it still does that?
Sometimes iMovie plays sections of video and/or audio from a memory cache, to avoid a slowdown involved in reading from the hard disc.
It's just possible that it's playing back material in its memory, as well as what's in your Timeline.
It's also possible that if you've moved around your extracted audio clip(s), you may have something (..audio and/or video..) positioned way beyond where you think your Timeline ends. Have you used the scrollbar at the bottom to scroll all the way, as far as humanly possible, to the extreme right, to see if there's nothing lurking there? ..And do that with 'Zoom' set to its lowest value, so that you really are scrolling to the very end of the movie.
I've had this kind of trouble in early versions of iMovie 4, but never had it yet in iMovie (5) HD.

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