Imovie not importing photos properly

Imac running Snow Leopard, 4Gig RAM. Have started an event and dragged in some video scenes, now when I add photos from the iphoto gadget, the photos don't show up when I'm previewing the movie. Each time I drag a new photo onto the event list, the image of the photo reverts to the first photo I've dragged in, and they don't play upon previewing the movie. I've done this dozens of times on my other IMAC running Leopard, but for some reason I can't get it to work on this IMAC. Any ideas? I've tried rebooting and same thing happens. The only different thing I have done is that I copied over the template event from my other IMAC into the drop box of this IMAC and then copied it into the imovie events folder and loaded Imovie and started using it.

I wish I had an answer for you, but sadly, the same thing happens to me. I've had this happen multiple times using Mac Mini with OS X 10.5.8. Another issue similar to this one is that the photo will just show up as BLACK--nothing else. Wish we could both get some help on this, but I'm not holding my breath...

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OS X - Support
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turn off the computer without the correct method (unplug, etc; instead of menu choice)
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use of the Disk Utility in the system. Or restart the computer in Safe Boot mode, then
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•Understanding Safe Mode - tuts+ computer skills tutorial:
http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/understanding-safe-mode--mac-59897
•OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?
Suggestions on how to use Safe Mode in article, to resolve issues, may be helpful.
There likely are other means to rectify troublesome applications, including reinstall.
Be sure to backup your music, image, video, and other work on an external drive
or suitable device as a precaution against loss should there be a hard drive failure.
iPhoto - Mac Apps - Apple Support
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