Strange glitch in my audio when exporting from FCPX.

I just finished my short film in FCPX today, and exported it. I used Apple's ProRes 422(HQ) format to export it using the "Export Using Compressor Settings" options. I was content with the video quality, however the audio was I believe to have been corrupted. I played my video in QuickTime X and on both my iMac and my MacBook Pro I can hear really annoying and distracting glitches that keep cutting up my audio and making the bass sound extremely weird. In the end, I put my video in iMovie, silenced out the audio and put on a track of the same song I was using in the original video. And just like I expected, the audio of the file that came out of iMovie did not have any of these weird glitches. Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong in FCPX that is casuing this problem or it might be something to do with the software itself? Perhaps bugs?

No, they are AAC audio files, 256kbps that I got from my iTuens library. So they need to be AIFF at 48k? Does the convert option to AIFF in iTunes satisfy this criteria? I am relatively new to audio formatting and related issues.

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Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000500d98eb
VM Regions Near 0x500d98eb:
Memory tag=240         000000000ebd0000-000000000ec90000 [ 768K] ---/rwx SM=NUL
-->
__TEXT 0000000070000000-0000000070142000 [ 1288K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /System/Library/Components/CoreAudio.component/Contents/MacOS/CoreAudio
Application Specific Information:
objc_msgSend() selector name: orderOut:
objc[9434]: garbage collection is OFF
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libobjc.A.dylib                 0x92115d47 objc_msgSend + 23
1   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x00467d96 main + 240950
2   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x0047efda main + 335738
3   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x002feae2 0x1000 + 3136226
4   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x0033a77b 0x1000 + 3381115
5   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x00462718 main + 218808
6   com.macromedia.Flash Player.app 0x004628b2 main + 219218
7   com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x98e0b3df __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 15
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10 com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x98e3447c CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 332
11 com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x98e34328 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 120
12 com.apple.HIToolbox             0x9289117f RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 318
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ds: 0x00000023   es: 0x00000023   fs: 0x00000000   gs: 0x0000000f
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