Still Photos Jump When Transitioning

Does anyone know why still photos make a little jump when they transition? And why they will focus and then change back out of focus before the transition?
I'm using iMovie08.
Thanks,
Peter

I found a workaround that seems to solve the problem here. The problem slides followed a slide that was 5-1/2 seconds long. If I scrubbed over the previous slide a single frame of the next_image appeared at the end of the previous one. That extra frame had a different pan/zoom effect, so when viewed, there was a jump.
I set the Preferences to "Display Timecode" instead of decimal seconds and adjusted the problem slide's length from 5:15 to 5:14 or 5:16 and the bad frame disappeared. Maybe there's a math error?

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