Imovie themes sometimes don't zoom into video

Hi All,
I've had a good trawl of the web in general looking for the answer to this, but I think the question is so hard to word that it may be something that I just haven't searched correctly. Apologies if this is the case!
I use iMovie a lot, and I would say that I am fairly proficient with it, so I don't think it's bad implementation on my part. I'm using the version from iLife '11, updated to the latest, and this has happened over a number of update increments. I'm currently on Lion 10.7.2 but this happened under Snow Leopard as well. I'm running iMovie on a Macbook Pro 13" i5 early 2011. I have had so many good results with this machine that I can reasonably rule out hardware not being up to the job. All the video I edit is AVCHD.
The problem arises when I use the themes, let's say for example the comic book / newspaper theme. The opening scene, generated by iMovie shows the 'front page' with the titles I have input, and then should zoom in to the video which is playing in the middle. What I am finding is that quite often, this doesn't work correctly. The zoom happens, perfectly smoothly and nicely, but instead of finishing by filling the screen with the movie, it ends up on the top half of the movie and the bottom half of the title. This then disappears and the movie plays as normal.
When this happens I have tried a few things to correct. I have tried removing all but the top line of text in the title. I have tried removing the theme and reinstating it. I have tried all the obvious reboots etc. None of these seem to work. It seems that when it is going to happen with a particular project it is just going to happen and is unfixable. I have tried starting the project again from scratch and this seems to sometimes work. I'm tempted to think though that the bug happens at project creation and so staring again has the same probablility of success or failure as the first attempt.
I'd really appreciate anybody's thoughts or input on this as I think I have reached the point where I'm not looking at it in an intelligent fashion. Of course if anyone has a 'do this and it's fixed' answer, that would be even better!
Many thanks for looking anyways.
Cheers
Dave

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