No audio while scrubbing video in event library in iMovie 10

I just began making my first film with the new iMovie 10 and I have no audio while scrubbing the video event library screen. The audio plays fine when I just have it play in the event library but it vanishes when I scrub which makes it difficult to find start and stop points for the section I wish to use. The old version allowed audio while scrubbing. Does this new version not allow it? I downloaded the latest update this evening (11-21-13) but that didn't fix it. I've searched the tool bar for an audio control but have yet to find it. I've shut down and restarted the computer to no avail.

Go to the View menu. At the bottom you should see "Audio Skimming." Choose that, and you should start hearing audio as you scrub/skim video.

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18. A.T. Romano,
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