No audio with FCP 3

My question is. Why would I not have any audio with my video clips? I had done a DV capture to a 30fps time line, well 29.97. The footage had been captured using 5.1.2, however, I had opened a new project in FCP 3 and imported those files. I have 4 reels and only my fourth is getting any play back. I know that the settings hadn't been changed from the other 3 reels. Also when I go into my capture scratch of and open the video clips they all have the audio when played in QT. Any thoughts?

Why do you say they have no audio?
Is there no audio when you add the clip to your timeline? Then turn audio targeting on.
Or, are you just not hearing audio? If not, are your meters reading? If so, you may be feeding audio out firewire, either switch audio to your computer speakers, or plug your speakers into your connected DV device.

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