Need to move audio clip to primary storyline without disturbing sync

I had a video clip in the primary storyline from which I detached the audio. I then lifted the clip by selecting it and clicking option-cmd-up arrow. What is the simplest way, preferably with keyboard shortcuts rather than dragging, of putting the audio clip in the primary storyline in sync with the video?
Here's a screen shot of my timeline after detaching the audio and lifting the video:

AFAICT you need to have some video clip to make that work. The following workaround is a bit messy, but can do the trick.
1) Add some short video clip connected below the audio (it can be a placeholder or a gap, or something else)
2) Select the audio and the dummy video and make that a compound clip (option-G)
3) Select the compound and command-option-downArrow to overwrite to the primary.
3) break apart the compound clip (select it and do Clip->Break Apart Clip Items, or Cmd-Shift-G)
4) delete the dummy video

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I began my first Adobe Premiere Elements 11 project this morning, a short video (5 mins) I intend to upload to YouTube. It's a comedy sketch involving inanimate objects that "talk", so it requires a lot of dialogue to be added to, in this case, the Narration track.
I am not new to Premiere Elements. In fact, I've done quite a bit of fairly complex editing on previous versions of the software (I upgraded to 11.0 from 8.0). I've never had this problem before.
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sleinbach
Thanks for the details. As I suggested this idea that I had after reading this thread may be just nonesense, but I thought it would be interesting to try.
This is recommended done with a copy of the project that you have now.
For now, let us assume that the missing track names are part of the locked Narration Track syndrome. I am not sure if your narration clip was generated in Premiere Elements narration feature or created elsewhere and brought into the program. That would be interesting information to have. But, nonetheless, moving forward with this idea.
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b. Right click the thumbnail for your narration in Project Media and select Replace Footage. Then browse to and select the original that you had moved to the computer desktop and the special folder there.. Click OK. That should restore the file (including whatever effects were made to the file) to the project.
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b. Switching to an Aero Theme for Windows if you do not have one set so far.
Thanks for giving all of that a look at.
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