Is there a way to separate video and audio?

I'm new to iMovie 08 because I've always used FCP. But for this particular project I'm working on, I think FCP would be overkill and I've always wanted to try iMovie anyway. So I'm use to having two different timelines for the audio and the video. iMovie only gives me one for both. Is there a way to unlink the audio and video channels? I would have thought this concept would be pretty universal for all video editors. What if you want to drop an insert clip over the audio or unsync the audio and video altogether?

Scroll down here: http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie ..to "Advanced Techniques" at lower-left, in particular "Working with Audio Clips" and "Working with Background Audio"..
..all you need to know is there in the Tutorials..

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