Rogue Sound when exporting to iDVD - HELP!!!!!!

I wonder if anyone can help. i have spent 100's of hours putting together a 50 minute movie that combines lots of clips from the same source together with stills. I have used multiple transitions and I am using the photograph theme.
I have two problems. Firstly although the movie plays perfect sound throughout in imovie when I export it ti IDVD the movie sound deteriorates for the middle part of the movie only. Despite having set the sound to zero on the clip - as I am using background music the sound still plays. i can't get rid of it. i have tried deleting and re-adding the clips from the source event, detached the audio, you name it and yet I cannot get rid of the sound. Secondly and again only in this middle section I have rogue sound appearing at a particular point in the film from a clip which is earlier in the movie - almost as if the sound has become detached and moved. I have checked and checked but can't fix it. I even exported the soundtrack only to Imovie to see if that would work but it did not. I AM OPEN TO ANY IDEAS - HELP

Is it realistic to think Apple will fix the bug soon?
We're not supposed to speculate here - no-one but Apple would know anyway! Hopefully, the next version upgrade (? iMovie '10) might address it.
One option for you would be to use the free program JES Deinterlacer to do your speed changes. My understanding is that it does a better job of slow and fast motion than iMovie. You would need to import your clips into JES, process them, export from JES, then re-import to iMovie - all a bit messy! But you would get the desired result.
If you leave the clips in iMovie with their current speed settings, you will almost certainly experience the audio glitches on export. So, you either need to change the speed to the presets, or use a 3rd party product such as JES Deinterlacer to set the speed for you. Bear in mind I haven't tested this (with JES) but believe it should work.
The product can be downloaded from this site:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jeschot/home.html
A link to an 18 MB video (by David Lute) showing a comparison of JES Deinterlacer slow-motion vs. iMovie slow-motion can be found about one third the way down the page. Unfortunately, there is no mention of the iMovie version used for the test.
John

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