Not Able to Move Clip

Hello All,
I'm working on an iMovie '11 project consisting of an assortment of short-length clips (most between 2-10s) and each time I try and move the portion I selected from the event menu, the select box disappears and I am not able to transfer it to the project. I have tried the prescribed click-and-hold method to only limited success (90% of the time the clip de-selects) and it has become extremeley frustrating. Am I doing something wrong? Is there an easier way to move clips?
Thanks so much.

try known good content.  You can download quicktime sample files here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1425
Try to move one of these into a project.  If they were then unfortunately it is your content that is the problem.
open up another user on your mac.  Import a clip into iMovie in this user and try to add it into a project.
If it works in a new user iMovie is fine.  Your issue can be one of several things. Fully quit iMovie. What I would do is clear all caches found in your ~/library.  Move all com.apple.iMovieapp files from ~/library/preferences to your desktop.  Launch iMovie and try again.
If it doesn't work in a new user, reinstall iMovie. 

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