Movie Preview Photo (Cover Artwork)

Hello,
I recently finished my first movie made up of only an assortment of photos. I used the scrapbook theme w/ transitions and some Ken Burns affects. After publishing the movie the initial photo ( the cover artwork, or the preview photo, I'm not sure what it's called) is not the first photo in the movie. It's the third? Does this make sense? How do I select the first photo in imovie to be the one that's used for the cover/artwork/preview when the movie is published? And why doesn't it use the "scrapbook" picture or theme when it generates the movie?

I guess my question is in general. Any time I render a video out of iMovie. I'd like the ability to select the poster frame rather than iMovie defaulting one for me. When I share the movie to iTunes iMovie sets the poster frame, as you explained to default picture, that can't be selected or modified. If the only way to do this is processing it in QuickTime Pro then I'll go that route, but it just seems like an obvious feature that should be part of iMovie, If you're making a movie about a specific topic wouldn't you want to be able to select the picture/movie clip that best represents the subject? If I'm way off track and I'm going to have to go the QuickTime route just let me know....
Thanks for the advice.

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