Sizing Photo Overlays In iMovie '08

I needed to use photos as the visual over top of the audio to disguise my edits, and was able to figure out how to drag the photo over the beginning of the clip so that it would replace the video, but not the audio. And then I could adjust the duration of the image, no problem. But for whatever reason, the images are showing up all zoomed-in. If it's a horizontal image, it only seems to zoom in a little bit, but if it's vertical, it crops off both the top and the bottom. Normally, when adding a photo, you can choose to crop, fit, or Ken Burns it, but I can't seem to figure out how to get that to come up when you're doing it as an overlay. Can anyone help me make my videos look better? Thanks in advance!

Karstens,
Got correct file and moved to trash. It was in my Home/library. You were right as IMovie durations are now unfrozen. Also, I upgraded from ILife '08 to '09 as it allows me to set slide durations up to 10 minutes. Duplicating and multiple copies of a slide were not realistic for me, as some may be several minutes long.
Thank you again for your help.
B.T.W. Munich is a beautiful city.
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