Viewing became black in iMovie

I was working on a project in iMovie and i saved and quit and came back later and the project was messed up.
The clips showed up in the bottom timeline, but in the big viewer, it was black.
The sound was playing and everything, and I could view clips in the clip pannel on the right.
I exported the project to .dv and I could view it find and I had to drag the dv file into the new iMovie to work on the project.
Does anyone know what i'm talking about? What causes this?

Were attempting to add an effect to a clip that had a title?
iMovie: Adding effects to a clip with titles may make it become gray or tinted
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301248
or maybe this?
Updating Ken Burns stills works only until you empty the trash in iMovie HD 6.0.2.
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/iMovieHD_6_bugs.html#stillupdate
Sue

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