This is probably my 10th Photostory Deluxe slideshow (God, I miss Easy so much... a vastly superior program) and suddenly I have three brand new problems which I have never encountered before.

1) A "Sound Optimization" popup keeps hitting me all the time. How do I prevent this from happening?

2a) and 2b) When you add a new piece of background music, you can pull it to the left so the previous existing piece will transition into the new piece. A very nice feature. Except suddenly, today it also drags the image above it to the left, meaning the previous image has less time on the screen. It also eliminates any existing slide-slide transition that came between those two slides. I can find no way to replace the vanished slide-slide transition (dragging a new transition down from the menu does nothing; it vanishes immediately).

Any clues as to how to fix these issues?

Thanks.