Merging projects in imovie, possibly using quicktime

I hope someone can give me some clues here: I have created a series of projects that I now want to merge into one so that I can send it to iDVD. I don't want to just copy and paste into a master project for two reasons: firstly I've found that if a project is too long a lot of the clips are very jerky and freeze for split seconds - very unnerving to watch. (these are video clips taken on a still camera, rather than a camcorder; I don't know if that makes a difference to the jerkiness)
And secondly, I have worked on the individual projects with music fitting each bit, and of course the music doesn't transfer when you cut and paste.
I searched for advice for an earlier project and read that exporting to make a Quicktime movie and then reimporting was the answer, and that worked beautifully.
However, when I did the same on this one, and try to play back the Quicktime movies, there is no sound. I am getting very frustrated and would be very grateful if anyone has any suggestions.
Thanis.

PS: I don't know if it's relevant; it's iMovie 09; my Mac is an iMac G5 and I have increased the memory to 2GB.
Thanks again for any help

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