IMovie still photo slideshow with theme - how?

(Sorry this question should've been posted in the iMovie HD 6 forum, so I have re-posted it there, but I don't know how to delete this post here, sorry for the double post. If you do have an answer for this question, please feel free to answer here, thanks!)
Hi I'm new to Mac, and I'm trying to make a photo slideshow with iMovie 6 HD. I wanted to use a theme for the opening, bumper, credit, etc.
From my understanding, I put the photos in the drop zone, put in the titles, and apply and drop the theme into the timeline. Then I drop the photos into the timeline as desire to continue the slideshow. However, problem arise as the animated theme ends, it doesn't connect with the photos that follow. For example, if I put 6 photos in the opening and as the opening animation ends, it zooms into photo #6 and it ends right there. I assume then I should drop photo #6 right after the opening theme, is that right? Problem is that the zoom level doesn't match and there will be a very obvious jump from the opening to the next photo! The same also happen to the beginning and ending of bumpers, and such.
Am I missing something? How do you make the transition smooth? Could somebody point me to some tutorials, threads, or provide some advice on how to create a photo slideshow with themes?
Thanks in advance.
Message was edited by: mechael

Hi,
I need an answer pretty quickly; maybe I can rephrase the question and make it simpler...
How do you match the beginning/ending of a theme animation to match the photo before/after it, so that it doesn't look like it jumped?
Thanks.

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