Disappearing Video track

At the school I teach for, we use FCP 4.5 HD on eMacs & G4 Towers running Mac OS 10.4.3. I've seen this bug, but can't remember how to remedy it. Whenever a clip is inserted or dragged from the source window to the canvas, only the audio gets placed. You can see the video timeline as you drag and when your video appears over your sequence line, but once you let the mouse button go, only the audio lays down. I don't have any layers locked, i have checked the sequence settings. Nothing. Has anyone else seen this ?

Hey Ted-
The only way I have seen this is when the video source tab is disconnected at the far left of the timeline. When the clip is dragged in the arrow must be placed over the video track. If it is just over the audio section that is all that comes in.
N

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