Joining and moving tracks in Final Cut Express

Hi,
I have a project where I am using up to four videos/photo images on the screen at one time. Obviously much of the problem is in the alignment of images as they do differ in size.
The biggest problem is that I have cut the main piece of the video into clips with gaps.
When I use garageband for podcasting there is an option to join clips together to form one track. Even if there are gaps inbetween clips. Does anyone know if this is possible in Final Cut Express? Also as I have problems in aligning overlays. Does anyone know how you can move a track in its above another in terms of it’s priority on the screen. ie. move v5 above v4 become v3. If I could do the former then this would merely be a case of copying and pasting but all my clips are separated in the tracks so it would help to be able to move the tracks.
This may be staring me in the face but I guess these things are always easy when you know them.

Thankyou both for the reply. I’l be honest and say that I was an imovie user who has picked up FCE over the last fortnight to do this project. If I did it again I’d prepare it totally different. I have nine tracks and each of them contains clips, separated by gaps and linked to audio. As there are overlays the gaps are important as I have the canvas screen split into four (each showing a different video or image. It’s all a bit tricky now but I really thought I’d be able to join up the clips as you can in imovie and garageband. I also expected to be able to move a track above another track as you can rearrange tracks in garageband even though it solves no real purpose. As track v1 shows above track v2 in the canvas it means I have a lot of fine editing to align the footage. If I did it all again I would prioritise what tracks will be most important before starting the project.
It’s been a fun but time consuming learning curve. If you know the limitations of software you can work around them whilst planning but now it would be a case of doing much of it again.

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