Overriding automatic time changes on iMovie

I am trying to get my iMovie images and music to change together. iMovie will often override the time I input to match the two together. Unfortunately it is sometimes wrong.
For example, I want an image to change at about 1.35 seconds. When I put in 1.3, imovie changes it to 1.2. If I put in 1.4, imovie changes it to 1.5.
It "thinks" that is the right setting, so it is changing it for me. I bought a mac because I was tired of micros&*ft "thinking" it knew what was best for me.
How do I override the auto time change feature and put in the times I want?
Thanks.

I want an image to change at about 1.35 seconds. When I put in 1.3, imovie changes it to 1.2. If I put in 1.4, imovie changes it to 1.5.
The image duration has to be entered in the Inspector as seconds and frames, not as a decimal. So, for example, if you are using the NTSC format each second is comprised of 30 frames (in reality, 29.97 frames). So if you want the image to be one and a half seconds you enter it as 1:15, which is one second and 15 frames. You can enter the time up to a maximum of x number of seconds plus 29 frames, such as 1:29 - you can't enter, say, 3:35 as that will actually represent 4 seconds and 5 frames and should be entered as 4:05 (note that a colon separates the numbers, not a decimal point).
Likewise with PAL projects which have 25 frames per second. For one and a half seconds you would enter 1:12 or 1:13 - not 1.5
It may help if you go to iMovie (in the menu) and click on Preferences. In the General tab in the window that opens, check (tick) the box against "Display time as HH:MM:SS:Frames". I think it's in the same location in iMovie '09 - I'm working in iMovie '11.
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