Movie stutters when song added

Hi,
I have a video that plays fine by itself, but if I add a song to the movie to play during the movie, it won't play smoothly. Both the video and the audio stutter very badly like it's processing too much. I have the audio turned off of the video so it's only the song playing.
I'm using iMovie 6, I've done software updates, I've run disk maintenance, I've saved, I've restarted. I have 40GB free space.
If I play just the movie and move the song to the end of the video so it's not at the same time, the movie plays fine, and the song plays fine. It's just when I move the song so that it plays at the same time that I have this problem.
I can also play the song in iTunes while I play the movie and it's fine. But, I really need to be able to do it all within iMovie so I can line things up right. I purchased this song with iTunes.
Anyone know how I can get this to work?
Thanks,
Robin
iMac 1GHz PowerPC G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9) 768MB DDR SDRAM

OK, so when I first tried looking up this issue before I posted, I couldn't find anything. But then after I wrote it, I thought I should try searching under "stutter" and voila, I found Karl Petersen's excellent thesis on the stuttering problems. My problem was the iTunes song. I burned it to a CD, copied it straight from the CD to iMovie and flawless. THANKS KARL. If you want to respond a short reply to my question, I'll mark it as answered by you.
Thanks!!!!!!!!!
Robin

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Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 13:47:57 -0600
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