Text in imovie?

Sorry, I'm a bit of a newbie to imovie. Could anyone tell me if there is a way of adding text to a photo?
Bascially I have a series of photos in imovie, and I want to show the picture & then have some text at the bottom - but the text is indivdual for each slide. I have tried going in to titles & adding subtitles & on the preview, I do indeed get the photo & the text over the top. When i either click on the tick - next to the preview, or click on the "add" button, all i get is a new slide with the subtitles & then the picture (if i click on the tick it seems to change the picture duration to 2 seconds - almost like it's trying to fit the text & picture to the same duration as the picture was before I added the text. I have unclicked the "Over Black" box BTW.
I could add the text to the picture, but this will take a lot of time & I will have to have 2 pictures - one without the text & one with.
Any ideas - even if someone can recommend a different prog it would be a help.
Best regards & thanks.
Mac OS X (10.4.10)

I can see when it renders at the very bottom in the clip viewer that the picture is there, but as soon as it finishes it splits the clip in two (between the 2 clips it has the overall duration - so if the clip was 5 seconds & I've set the subitle to 3 seconds, then it splits the first clip to 3 seconds & the second to 2 seconds
Yes, splitting the clip (photo) so that one part has the title and one doesn't is how titling works, so that part is working correctly.
However no matter what I do the first clip is black with the text This part is NOT working properly. You should get the title over the photo, not over black.
I can address two things:
1. Delete iMovie's preference file. Located in Home/Yourusername/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iphoto.plist.
With iMovie closed, trash this plist file. iMovie will create a new one when you reopen it.
2. Have you emptied iMovie's trash since you have created this movie? There is a bug in iMovie 6 that causes problems with clips that have been imported with Ken Burns effect. If you try to change them, the clips turn black, usually when you try to change their duration or add transitions---possibly the same problem with adding titles. The only work-around is to reimport the photos and never empty the trash.
Some have found that the problem persists even with the newly imported photos, and have had to start over with a new iMovie.
If you emptied iMovie's trash, that could be the problem.

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