Ken Burns speed not uniform

I'm making a small (6 minute) slideshow in iMovie 4.0.1, using only stills. Sometimes when I apply the Ken Burns effect, it won't actually start until the time for that photo is halfway through. Then it zooms on to the end. It doesn't always happen this way, but about half the time. I don't know what I am doing wrong. I try to re-do it, but I can't seem to make it right.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Soozi
PowerBook G4   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Thanks Karl and Lennart for your help.
Funny, Lennart, I played with your suggestion last night, but was afraid I might corrupt something, so I didn't save the change. Now that I know it's ok to do, I'll try again tonight.
Karl, thanks for all the zooming tips. I checked the first photo that misbehaved, and I was zooming out from 1.0 to 1.15.
Are you saying not to use the Reverse button in the Photo pane, but to work in the Menu bar to make a reversed clip and turn it into a DV clip? Sounds like more work than I had planned, but I certainly will give it a try.
And when you say to remove the first 1 to 3 frames, would I split the playhead at that point and then delete the first part? Strange, I deleted half of the clip last night (as a test), but now I don't know how I did that. ...... Oh, wait, I remember - I dragged those points (forgot what you call them) under the main window with the clip, and then deleted, hoping I was deleting the right section. I did.
I do have iLife '05, sitting in a box. I guess I should just get brave enough to install it. Do the same Ken Burns problems exist in '05?
Thanks for all your help. I'm just so excited to be able to make DVDs for my family members.
Soozi
PowerBook G4   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

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