IMovie syncing help needed!!!

Am trying to use iMovie 11 and am going insane, seriously insane. I wanted to make an interview between my brother and I in time for xmas. So we recorded ourselves on camera, and used a zoom box and mike to record seperate and better quality audio.
Now, all I want is to attach and sync my audio clip with my takes, and his audio clips with his takes. Shouldn't be too difficult, right? Here is the problem. Once synced, I need to CUT DIFFERENT CLIPS and put them together, i.e. my brother talking, then me talking, then him etc. Yet I want these clips to have the seperate audio tracks attached and sliced in the same spot, which is just not happening.
I can attach the audio in the project window, but what I want somehow is to attach and replace the audio in the EVENT window, so I can just select the clip I want and drag into projects, and the synced audio will come with it. Does that make sense?
This would seem the most basic video editing ever but iMovie just won't do it!
Any help would be appreciated before I burn my mac and go back to a PC : (

This is difficult in iMovie, and rather easy in Final Cut Pro.
If you would like to avoid the expense of Final Cut Pro, I would recommend this...
1) Sync your takes, make a project out of it, and SHARE/EXPORT USING QUICKTIME to Apple Intermediate Codec so you retain as much quality as possible. Repeat this for your brother's takes.
2) Now import these AIC movies into iMovie using File/Import/Movies. This will give ou the video and the good audio together in unified clips.
3) Now edit your iMovie project as usual.

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Hi, posted this once before but did not get a single answer so I'll try again.
Ijust started using iMovie and finished my first project this weekend.
Though when I updated to iMovie'11 the music I added just will not play!
I realized that the songs I added as music no longer is added as music but as voiceover. The wierd part is that one song works just fine and it is still added as music.
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