Photo's dropped into Themes do not render

When I use either the black refelction or white reflection theme some of the photo's render either half cut off or as diagonal lines.
This is driving me nuts!
Anyone have a work around for this problem ?

Please say more about exactly what happens. Are you saying that one side of the photo is cropped off?
Note there are certain drop zones that do not have the same aspect ratio as most photos. In that case, iMovie crops the photo to fit the drop zone. Note, however, that in that case iMovie lets us move the photo around inside the drop zone to control the cropping. Click on the drop zone, then press the Option key. Two arrows appear, at the top/bottom of the drop zone, or at the left/right side. Drag the photo the direction of the arrows to crop the photo.
Are you saying the image itself is replaced by diagonal lines? The image changes?
Say more about what type of images they are. Particularly their size, in pixel dimension. If quite large, you might try using iPhoto to make them smaller.
If you're seeing a real distortion in the image, I suggest you start by removing and third-party iMovie plug-ins and third-party QuickTime add-ons. More about those here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1852869#1852869
Have you upgraded to iMovie 6.0.2? That fixed some theme issues.
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