"Slow Motion" Audio - Canon HV20 and IMovie 6.03

Hi
Just tried the above combination for the first time. Footage imports fine and plays normally in the clip viewer. However, if I play the same clip in full screen mode, my wife's voice drops an octave! Exactly the same happens when exporting to Quicktime. The whole sounds drops in pitch and women sound like men, men like Barry White. The 'speed' is OK and plays in sync with the video - just at a lower pitch.
This seems to have been mentioned early last year but no solutions seemed to have been suggested bar editing the pitch for each clip.
Any solutions/explanations/cures gratefully received.
Thanks
Matt

Only as I say above. Snipping a second off the start of a clip seems to bring the sound back to normal again. No idea what'shappening but it seems to work. Tried importing on my iMac G5 with an earlier version of iMovie (5.something) and there are no problems. So it's either something in 6.03 or something weird the MacBook Pro is doing but everything points to a software glitch. iMac G5 also imports in real time which I didn't expect. Only has 1gb of RAM too.

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