Ken Burns rendering corrupted/static images

I seem to be having an issue with imovie 6.0.1 , where when I add a new photo to my movie (either from the media/photos/iphotos options, or from dragging and dropping from a seperate folder), the resulting 4 sec rendered clip comes out corrupted, with grey static lines across (i can't see the picture at all). Looks sort of like static on a tv.
I'm using standard sized JPEG files 2032 * 1524 from a Kodak camera. Although, I have noticed similar problems from diffrent sources.
I've tried using diffrent imovie settings, mpeg4, dv, etc.
The problem seems kind of random where the clip might get rendered correctly one time, then the next it wont. Sometimes, the rendered clip comes out tinted red. The tintind red seems to be specific to another source : one scanner that I used.
I didn't have this problem with imovie 5 , before I upgraded.
Even upon exporting the movie to say a quicktime clip, the problem stays is persistent in the final clip.
At first glance (and Im still testing this), the images get correctly rendered when I export the images from iphoto to a seperate folder at a different resolution and then add the photos from there. This is kind of tedious, because I routinely edit photos in iphoto, and I don't want to be exporting them every few minutes. Nor do I want to export my entire iphoto library.
Perhaps Ken Burns has a issue with certain Jpeg formats?
Any possible solutions?
Thanks,
Vic
1.42 Ghz PowerPc Ibook   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

Thanks for the help,
I tried exporting to the same resolution, but that didn't fix the problem.
Doing any sort of editing on the picture (say croping it), does appear to fix the problem.
I've tried using other photo sources (digitial cameras), and it seems to me that photos taken with some digital cameras don't get this problem where as photos from other cameras sometimes do.
It seems that the Ken Burns renderer doesn't like JPEG's coming from certain cameras, as soon as these JPEG's are resaved by a diffrent program (say iphoto) the problem is fixed.
Atleast thats what I think the problem is, Im not 100% sure because this corruption problem doesn't always occur, its seems sort of random.
Also the problem appears diffrent then the problem mentioned with imovie 4. For one thing the static lines are horizontol vs. vertical, and the mentioned work around doesn't fix the problem.

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