A few clips wrong timecode in Color sequence from FCP 7

Dear gods and goddesses of the Color Forums,
So I've been going over the questions regarding exporting FCP 7 sequences to Color, and believe I followed all the directions correctly to prep my sequence for Color. Took off all the graphics and text, put everything on track 1, and made any basic motion images independent quicktime movies to "bake in" the motion and avoid previously known issues with this.
Everything seems to be working just fine except for three clips which have the wrong timecode. A different part of the clip is showing up than what is in the in/out points on the FCP sequence.
Does anyone have any pointers about how to re-align these in/out points in color with the correct part of the clip? Or is there any way I can drop in the correct portion of the clip into the sequence in Color? I would hate to lose all the work I've already done on this sequence just due to 3 clips that are not correct on the timeline...
specs: shot on Canon 5D, frame rate 23.98 fps, codec Apple Pro Res 422 (HQ), Final Cut Pro 7, Color 1.5 (Academic versions).
Thanks for any help!
Erin Galey
Director/Cinematographer

If you want to keep the original source media, then you will have to figure out why COLOR is picking the wrong "in" point. Could be a framerate issue, GOP mismatch, I would hope it isn't part of a nested sequence or Multicam nest... possible confusion with unsupported media in proximity. All of these have been issues at one time or another.
Cheap 'out' would be to simply export the offending clips as independent pickups... replace them on the originally exported FCP sequence and Reconform in COLOR. For three clips, this would appear to be the most expedient option.
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