Problem changing clip duration

Hello All;
I am able to increase the duration of individual clips in my timeline but for some reason, I can't decrease the duration (I get a beep and the change doesn't take place). Am I doing something wrong ?
Thanks.
Tim

OK I completely rebooted and it was working for a while but then started to no longer let me decrease the duration. Here are some screen shots.
The duration of these clips varies but generally about 6:15 seconds to 7 Seconds and I am trying to change all to 6:00 Seconds.
Here are two ways I tried to change the duration. I am not sure if I can upload photos here so I'm going to provide a link to my server -
Method #1 -http://www.dedula.net/Picture%201a.png
Method #2 -http://www.dedula.net/Picture%202a.png
When I tried method #1, I got the following error message which may be a clue to what's happening here ...http://www.dedula.net/Picture%201.png
I did not receive any feedback after hitting OK for method #2 - just a beep and it reverted to my previous duration and did not change.
Any ideas ?
Tim

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