Subtitle insists on being "over black"

I am attempting to add a subtitle to a movie clip in iMovie HD (6.0.3). The movie consists of just one short (5 sec) clip. I make an even shorter (4 sec) subtitle, "over black" is not selected, and preview looks great with text over video.
When I attempt to add the subtitle before the clip (by dragging "Subtitle" from the title menu) the clip does the little slide to the right, the title is added... But now the first part of the clip is gone, replaced by the subtitle over a black screen.
When I attempt to add the subtitle by clicking the "Add" button on the Titles menu, the same thing happens.
If it is relevant, this is at the very beginning of my movie. (Obviously, since the movie is just one clip, and I am adding the title before that clip.)
Any ideas how to fix this?

Deleting the preferences files ( ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iMovie* ) seems to have fixed this problem.

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