No Audio when recording with built -in mic

i have used imovie HD for a while no and when i record with my macbook, it makes perfect video with sound. i have just done my first recording with imovie '08 and there is no sound at all. my setting are set to internal mic. is there something special i have to do to make it record both sound and audio?
please help. i have recorded about an hour of work for future keynote presentations and would be destroyed if i had to remember everything i came up with.

how do you do it?
1. Create a New Basic Track
2. Click the record button
3. There is no step 3.

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