Problems with audio ducking with Voiceovers in iMovie08

I think I have a basic misunderstanding of how audio ducking works. I have a project made up of still pictures with transitions between each picture. I have added background music to the project.
Next, I have added voiceovers using the voice over tool in iMovie08. I select the clip, then select audio, and ducking at 15%. Some of them work great, others will duck audio for 2 or 3 seconds and then the background music shoots back up to its normal volume, and finally some do not work at all, no matter what I try.
I have spent quite a bit of time trying to figure it out and could use some help.
Many Thanks in Advance.

This is sad. Discussions reports 2 helpful answers and 1 solved answer. I see no answers. I too am having problems. No matter what I set for ducking (including zero%), it is ignored for my voiceover and the background track plays full volume. I've had to resort to dropping the background volume which is not what I want for the initial part of my clip.
Looks like I found the reason just after posting this. In someone's wisdom, the ducking is ignored if the voiceover clip starts too close to the overall clip start. By moving it later, it somehow realized that ducking is required.
Ducking should cause all other audio tracks (including background tracks) to fade to the percent listed.
This is a bug with iMovie 7.1.4 at least. (Still, it's a bug. If you want to start ducking early, that would make more sense than no ducking at all)
Message was edited by: Pecos Bill

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