IMovie shuffling my photos in playback

Somebody please help. I have been working on a slideshow for my wife of out baby son since he was born for his first birthday, which is next month. As of yesterday, the playback was shuffling the photos and putting them in a weird order.
They are still correct in the editing panel, just different on the play screen. I can not restart this project...any help would be a life saver!!!

Hi rod - look here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1845120&#1845120
Read especially further down the thread - is this what you have?

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