Problems with Audio Adjustments taking effect

Hi,
I'm a pretty seasoned iMovie HD user trying my first experience with iMovie '08. I imported a project I had started in iMovie HD and am experiencing what I can only describe as potentially a bug with the Audio Adjustments function. My video clips are in dv format. I have added a audio clip to serve as background and would like to lower/silence the audio from the video track on certain clips but I find that it doesn't work. I select the clip, click on the audio speaker icon to open the Audio Adjustment window, I lower the slider to my desired level and hit "done." I play the track and the audio has not been lowered/silenced. After a number of tries doing the same exact thing a few times it worked. I read another user complaining of similar problem which was fixed by a restart, that does not appear to be the case for me. Then I am also experiencing the same problem in reverse. I get the volumed lowered and then try to increase it, and it doesn't change. In all instances I can see that the audio speaker icon indeed has changed the amount of bars showing the volume level, its that you don't actually hear the change when you play it.
I appreciate any help with this.
Thanks.

My video clips are in dv format. I have added a audio clip to serve as background and would like to lower/silence the audio from the video track on certain clips but I find that it doesn't work.
This appears to be a "hit or miss" complaint among users. I personally have not had such problems but there are simply too many people having problems for it to be a case of "imagination" on their part. My recommendation is to do audio mixing in GarageBand where the files are converted to AIFF audio tracks which can be aurally and visually modified using controls that allow you to create custom contours for fading in/out, vary the volume at any point within each track, adjust/attenuate the equalization bands, mix each track as a unit relative to other tracks, and then adjust your final mastered mix volume. Am not a professional in the A/V field but this work flow does appear to be the most logical for adding "pro-sumer" touches to an otherwise "consumer" product and fail to see why more people are not taking full advantage of such advanced features.

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