Inserting photos into movie

All I want to do to my movie is insert a photo for a few seconds at a certain point. I want the picture to just pop up in the corner of the screen so that the video plays onward while the photo is there. It seems like a pretty easy thing to do, but I'm new at this, so I can't figure it out. All the instructions that I read are hard to understand because they use terms that I'm unfamiliar with (like imovie window pane. i still don't even know what that is) to explain the process. Could I please have a dumbed down explanation of how to create a movie like this?

Welcome Hayley44 to the  iMovie boards..
.. I want the picture to just pop up in the corner of the screen so that the video plays onward while the photo is there.
simple answer: can not be done with iMovie .. (except iMovie08, or with $$ plug-ins)
you've posted in the 'iMHD' section of this board, which is in Apple lingo vers5 .. (iMHD6, and iM08..)
you haven't told us anything about you're set-up - please fill in the form at 'My Public Profile' ..
I'm pretty sure, you do NOT use vers 5.. which is a very old version of iMovie ..
in case you use iM08, I have some illustrated advice for your problem on my website..
... window pane. i still don't even know what that is ..
to handle a program you have at last understand the 'terms' ..
tutorials für iM5:
http://www.apple.com/support/imovie/tutorial/index.html
tutorials für iM6:
http://www.apple.com/support/imoviehd/
tutorials für iM8:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieHD_6_GettingStarted.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovie08_GettingStarted.pdf

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