Text/character overlay on a movie segment in imovie08?

I have several movie segments that I am putting together to form one movie. On the first segment, I want to put an arrow/carot to point out one person. The segment is about 15 seconds long, and I want the arrow to appear for about 2 seconds near the beginning of the segment. From what I have found in the forums, is that with imovie08 the only way to achieve this is to create a picture outside of imovie with the arrow in the picture, and then put that picture in the movie. I have not gone through this procedure as I am not sure I have the write software to do this. I have only just purchased my macbook pro about 3 weeks ago, and only have the software that came out with it. So, I don't know if the software I need to create this picture, with the transparent background, is on my machine. That would be my first question, if there is software with the basic software loaded on the machine that will do this and if so what is the name.
Next, even if I do that, this seems like a very hit or miss involved process (controlling the length of time it shows by having stub movie segment...etc). Searching the internet, there is an external package for the imovie06 (that I pulled down because of all the forum posts complaining about the lack of capabilities in imovie08), that appears to do this as a plugin. My next question would be, if this is possible with a plugin, is there a basic text overlay integrated with imovie06 that may be easier to use? Or, in order to take advantage of this, would I have to purchase the external plugin. This seems like a waste since the imovie08 doesn't support plugins and this plugin would only work in imovie06.
This is not completely necessary for what I need, and is probably the limit to what I would "edit" the movie segments. Hence, I do not need to buy some extra video editing software. I just thought it would add a little extra for the consumers of my video. But, if I have to go through so much effort for a small bit of flash, it is not worth it. Am I missing something?

Can't say I fully understand everything your trying to do, but I gather you want to add a carrot and some text as an overlay with as little extra software as possible.
I'd google for an image of a carrot, photoshop is the ideal tool to remove the background but you can do it with a word processor and preview if you must. As for text, you can simply use the titles supplied or for extra glamour there's an application called art text (quite cheap) you could use and introduce in much the same way as the carrot.

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