Stop-Motion Filming

Hello,
I am trying to make a stop-motion film and the photo duration settings aren't working properly. I am using iMovie 6.0.2. I am not using Ken Burns.
The default photo duration seems to be 9:29. To change this default, I have found the answer in a previous post:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2635892

For some reason my post got cut off.
*me wonders if it had anything to do with the fact that I was using a Windows machine at the time...*
Well. I was saying Karl found a clever way in the above link for the photo duration to actually do what you tell it to (thanks, Karl).
1. Throw out iMovie preferences.
2. Drag a photo to the timeline, double click it and set the desired time, close the box.
3. Click the picture in the timeline again once to select it.
4. Open photo settings window (duration should reflect that of the image in the time line).
5. Then select and apply as many photos from the media → photos pane to the timeline as you want, and they should all have the same photo duration as the first selected picture already in the timeline.
The above solution seems to work, but it’s a very fragile process. If I don’t throw out the preferences as many times as it appears, the first photo in the group of step 5 will be a hundreth faster than the original photo already in the timeline (I have no idea why), and the rest will be 9:29. Is there any way to simply change the default 9:29 to something else?
My second question is about changing the duration of multiple photos that are already in the timeline. This problem was discussed here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=964450&#964450
But I don’t understand what is meant here. Catspaw said: “you must include an IMPORTED still among the highlighted stills you wish to modify. Then when you do the KB duration adjustment and 'Apply', the change is reflected in ALL of the stills. If necessary, then trash the imported still.”
Aren’t all of the images in the timeline (which I dragged from the media →photos pane) ‘imported’? What does it mean to include ‘an imported still’? I’m trying to change a number of images already imported to the timeline, and setting the time in the photo settings window and hitting update doesn’t do anything. I’m not suing Ken Burns. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Christian

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