TS2289 Audio won't import with video in iMovie 11

My iMovie 11 (9.0.4) is all of the sudden malfunctioning - it's not importing the audio with the video. I've even tried importing clips that just a few days ago imported perfectly with the audio... but now the audio isn't importing. So I know it's not a problem with the video file. And I know that I have the volume up in iMovie... the intro w/ music that I have in iMovie is playing the audio perfectly. The problem is with importing a video file (mp4). I've literally imported hundreds of video clips into iMovie, and have never had this problem. My Mac is 10.6.8. Any suggestions?

I'm using imovie 9.0.9 with OSX 10.7.5
I also went through days of troubleshooting why some clips have sound and some don't. All quicktime files have sound when played from quicktime. But no sound when imported into imovie.
None of the Apple or User suggestions worked. But I finally found a solution. I'm working on a project with over 100 clips. Everything was fine until I tried to import around 20 clips at the same time. Some had sound some didn't. Also, when done with each section, I exported the movies and deleted the thumbnails from the imovie clips window to clean up and organize the session. When re importing clips which previously had sound, the sound was gone but the image would play.
What I found was that any file which had been deleted from the clips window, was now in the Rejected Clips window. Re importing the file would only show image but no sound. Once I Move Rejected Clips to Trash, emptied the finder trash, and re imported the files, all files played with sound.
Back up original files on hard drive
In imovie
Select View Rejected Clips
Select Move Rejected Clips to Trash
Empty Trash in Finder
Re Import Files

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