Time Lapse with iMovie 11

I was really hoping to be able to build a time lapse movie with iMovie 11.  But, it looks as if it isn't possible.  There are two big issues:
1.  It would appear that there is a maximum number of 'clips' that iMovie 11 will accept.  So, when importing still images, iMovie freezes at the maximum.  I'm not sure what that miximum is, but it's somewhere between 500 and 1000.  Does anybody know?
2.  It would appear that the shortest period that I can allocate to an individual image is 0.04.  So, each image lasts for four frames.  It means that the effective frame rate for the time lapse is 6.25 frames per second (assuming a 25fps PAL movie).
It's so annoying.  It was possible to develop time lapse movies with iMovie HD.  It took a bit of messing around, but it was possible!  I can't seem to find anyway to do it in iMovie 11.  Anybody got any suggestions?

Thanks.  I'll look into getting Quicktime Pro ... although I was hoping to take advantage of iMovie so that I could interweave time lapse footage with standard footage.
I did manage to come up with a workaround, but it isn't particularly elegant.
I found that I could import around 500 still images without a problem.  Before importing, I adjusted the project properties so that Photo Duration was set to 1 and Initial Photo Placement was set to 'fit'.  I then dragged the images to the project and they imported.  Once they were all imported, I adjusted the clip properties so that the clip duration was 0.04 (the shortest duration I could get it to accept) and made sure that I checked the 'apply to all clips) box.
I now had a string of 500 images at durations of 0.04, and I exported this as an HD quicktime movie.
I then tried to do the same thing again, but found a weird anomaly and iMovie wouldn't import clips.  On a hunch, I deleted the project.  Exited iMovie.  Emptied the trash.  Restarted iMovie.  Opened a new project, and tried importing the next 500 stills.
It worked!
So, it's a bit of a fuss, but after each import of 500 stills, I exported an HD movie then deleted the project, emptied the trash, and started a new project.
Eventually, I'd got through 1,799 images.
So, finally, I created an entirely new project, and imported the four movies that I'd created.  I imported at 'full' quality to try to avoid as much degredation as possible.  I was then able to bring the four movies into the new project, speed them up (x4) and I've got a half-way decent time lapse.
It isn't perfect, but it does provide a method of using iMovie 11 to generate time-lapse segments within broader movies.
I will try Quicktime Pro too.
Does anybody have any suggestions for best export settings from Quicktime so that the time lapse could then be imported into iMovie 11?

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