'ghost' audio clips

Frequently when I edit audio clips in the timeline, the program creates strange nonexistent audio clips, that have zero duration and sometimes only appear in the timeline index.
I find this occurs most frequently when moving audio clips around in timeline, especially when working with grouped (command G) clips.
This becomes a problem when I am trying to see which order I have used music loops in and the timeline index is showing 'ghost' clips, messing around with my order.  Anyone else dealing with this?  Below is an image with an offending clip in the timeline:

I don't know how they came about, but it looks like you may have subpixel length audio clips
Unlike video, audio clips can be resized in smaller than one pixel increments

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