No Sound in iMovie exports

I just installed iMovie 09 over imovie 08 and now I get no sound in my shared movies. No original voice, no background music, nothing. Quicktime Export, iDVD, HD - no sound anywhere. So disappointing. Can you help me?
Papa GB

I was having the exact same issue - skimming the clips there was sound, but playing them there wasn't.
I had only 5GB free out of 120GB on my hard drive and it turned out that iMovie needed more disk space to make the temp files it uses. I moved a bunch of files off to an external drive, and the sound began working again. Big relief!

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