Need a miracle here - timeline sound gone bad

Yes I'm hoping and praying that someone can work a miracle here. I know I'm not the first person to have an iMovie problem destroy a few weeks work but this is a really crucial project that I have to hand in first thing tomorrow morning. Bad consequences if I don't. Anyway sorry to bore you with that stuff now this is what has suddenly happened.
I was minutes, yes minutes away from finishing this 18 minute project when suddenly the sound in the timeline went all distorted and choppy. I'm not sure what I did to bring it on but I immediately closed the project without saving in the hope that whatever bad stuff I'd picked up would not be there when re-opening..
I'm afraid not! Seems to be staying with the project after shut-downs and restarts.
The sound when you play a clip from the clips pane is perfect but down in the timeline, whether it's the sound that accompanies a clip or extracted sound on one of the soundtracks or even imported CD music.... all sound very poor now. It's distorted and a bit choppy too. It's that sound you get when you turn a poor quality radio or amp up full and it overdrives itself. I tried dragging a new clip from the clips pane down into the timeline and its sound was immediately affected. Drag it back up tp the clips pane and its ok again.
Another strange thing is that I can't help but thing that the sound is slower. How can that be possible when the vision looks normal. Very weird. It may have introduced a sync problem too. By the way the saved quicktime movie is also distorted.
Hope you're still reading! Hope someone can help. Waiting with crossed fingers.

Ok, hold the phone everyone! I knew I'd end up looking silly when I got so dramatic.
I went back and deleted the last clips, sound extractions, etc that I did before I shut down and low and behold, for some reason whatever I did there at the end of the timeline affected everything else before it and also all sound.
Still a mystery but out of sync problem, broken sound etc is ok now.
Interesting to see what happens when I add the same clips again.
Sorry to bother you all for nothing. Hope this experience may help someone else though.

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