Warning: Audio from iMovie08 projects broken in iMovie 09

I had 6 active projects when I upgrade. Three of them seem to be fine, but the other three dropped their audio tracks that I added. Of the three good ones, all three use audio tracks that are simply drop-in songs from iTunes -- where I selected the audio via the iMovie08 media browser.
Of the three with issues, one of them had a custom audio track that I'm not sure I can replicate, so that may just be lost.
The other two were simply songs I dropped in from iTunes via the iMovie08 media browser. The songs show up in the projects pane, but with a yellow exclamation point. When I click play, the movie plays fine, but with no audio.
So, in these two projects with broken audio from an iTunes track, I simply deleted the broken link and re-dropped the same song in. Now the audio is back, but after about 20 seconds of playing, the movie gets choppy, and playback starts freezing though the audio keeps rolling. I haven't tried export, so I don't know if this impacts the final product, but it does make it unworkable to review my projects.
Has anyone else had this issue -- where the audio link breaks and, if you fix it, it seems to mess up the video somehow.
I put this up here both as a request for help, and a warning to others -- back up your projects before upgrading, check each project carefully for the broken audio issue, and if the audio is broken, don't think that just dragging the audio back in will fix the issue.

I spent some time on the phone with apple today troubleshooting this issue. my projects would freeze the visual while running the audio. They had me download a short movie from apple.com (any .mov file will work). close all apps including imovie. go into home folder/movies and drag the imovie events and imovie projects folders to the desktop. this essentially erases all the info in imovie. then open imovie and make sure there is no content inside. once confirmed go to file/import/movies and import a .mov file you know is clean (i would suggest a short one to keep from spending a long time). when the movie shows up in your library select a clip and put it in a new project. does it play both audio and video? if yes the problem is with your clips. if no you have faulty software and will need to replace ilife. go back to home folder/movies and drag the imovie folders on the desktop back. it will ask you if you want to replace existing folders. say yes or continue. if the clip you tested earlier played fine you will have to reinstall ilife and rebuild all events you want to work.
this is a pain but it works. mine is back to normal.

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