Still Pictures in imovie are messed up

I am almost ready to publish my imovie of still pictures. However when I preview the imovie the stills in the viewer do not match up to the stills under the curser? Some of the pictures never show up at all. Any advice would be helpful.

I notice that you have not had the question answered as yet. I have the same sort of problem. What's shown in the viewer doesn't match what is showing in the preview screen.
It was all going fine until I added in just one more transition and then it seemed to all get messed up.
I'm using iMovie 08, I have about 620 still slides and two short (15 sec and 49 sec video clips). I have not yet added audio. And I have had this problem three times. Each time I have gone back to the start and redone the project. Each time the playback seems to be disengaged from the thumbnails and I get hundreds of edited thumbnails added at the end of the project (though the thumbnail shows as the one slide repeated hundreds of times).
Actually, the first few slides run true but then a slide is missing from the viewer (the thumbnails) yet it's showing correctly on the right hand pre-view screen. I've tried the obvious things like deleting the transition, deleting the slide where the problem first seems to occur but tht does not fix it.
I also seem to have another mess at the end of my project where all the slides that I have edited (eg the Ken Burns effect) have some how inserted themselves. But they show up in the thumbnails as the one slide repeated many times. Yet when I run the cursor over them the edited, original, slide is shown in the preview screen.
And one final observation. When I run the project in full screen playback it seems to run as I originally wanted it to....except that I can no longer edit it.
Any suggestions from anybody?

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