Repairing Distorted Audio in iMovie HD6 - Any tips?

I have a concert video that I recorded a while back & I was way too close to the speakers and PA resulting in real distorted audio. Any tips for making it better? I was fiddling around in iMovie and settled on the setting for "Arena" which is actually a real improvement apart from the fact that I'm not that keen on the whole arena sound as it was shot in a small club. It at least dampens that distorted rumble a bit. Any other tips?

I think I solved my own problem. I noticed that every song I tried to use that I bought through iTunes has the same problem. I guess I shouldn't use iTunes to buy music for videos. Plus, if I try to export to Garageband to score, it totally prevents me from importing those songs.
Either I stop using iTunes for this, or I burn everything I want to use to an audio disk and then import back to iTunes. I hate DRM.

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