No timeline or navigator in iMovie 10.0?

Please tell me how I can see what time I'm up to (timeline) in iMovie 10.0? It only shows the time at the start and end of a clip!! I am used to editing my movies to a certain length or coming in to edit at a certain moment on an audio clip.
The previous version showed you minutes and seconds as you skipped through your content. I've looked through the iMovie help after it finally loaded, but couldn't find anything.
(If you also know why it's generally crap and slow and bugs everywhere, please enlighten me.)
I'm running the latest OS on a 15" MBP, 2.7GHz i7, with 16GB.
Thanks!

"I am baffled why I cannot cross-dissolve audio clips but I can do so with picture"
Well it's done automatically in the case of two video clips with attached audio that have a Cross Dissolve transition between them.
When you have detached or independent audio clips just overlap them and use the fade handles to fade one out and the next in. See below:
See: http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov3b5ded23e for more details
Geoff.

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