Previously completed project: all audio now distorted in edit playback

I completed a 25 min training video six weeks ago with several hundred clips. Audio is mostly voiceover broken into 100+ tracks, with a few background music tracks, some camera audio, and about 20 total sound effects. The project is complicated for imovie, but saved and exported to idvd without problems. Now when I open it, ALL of the audio is terribly distorted in playback. Sounds like a radio broadcast not quite tuned in. Opened the version on my back up hard drive with same result. Tried to delete an audio track and re-record and even the new voiceover or music track is distorted. No other archived projects have this problem. I have completed another larger project since last modifying the problem project. The new project is fine. My hard drive has 27GB available and I am not running anything else when attempting playback. I also did a software update just in case but nothing in the update for imovie.

Since the sound apparently plays back fine in iDVD, I suspect that the sheer number of sound clips in your audio track is overwhelming iMovie's playback feature. You describe a pretty complicated sound track for a 25 minute video.
The goal of iMovie is to create a movie that can be exported to iDVD and subsequently burned to a DVD. If you achieved a good DVD then maybe it isn't important that iMovie distorts the playback.
As a test, you might just delete out 75% or more of the audio clips in your iMovie project, and see if the remaining ones play well in the project. Just don't save the modified project when you close it and everything will revert to the original. Keep your back up project intact, of course, in case something goes wrong.
If the number of sound clips are causing the problem, you might need to consolidate them into fewer clips. One way to do this might be to divide your movie into three segments, exporting each segment to a full quality quicktime movie. Then import the quicktime movies into your project, deleting the original audio and video clips. The result would be 3 audio clips instead of 100+. Or, you could export the entire movie project to a full quality Quicktime movie and import it back into your project. Again, always keep a reliable back up in case you are not satisfied with the results.

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