Audio and video track strangeness

Hi,
I have a few camera angles that have 4 audio tracks associated with them, and other camera angles that are just one track...
I was attempting to stack all of my camera angles in fcp, so that I could sync the audio up for the various angles, and then cut between them and drag various pieces to the top video track (I assume this is a standard way of working).
Anyway, so the problem I was experiencing was, I had one video track with one audio track, and then the next video track above that had 4 audio tracks connected to it... So if I tried to take a slice of the 1st video track, and move it to the next track, the audio would go ontop of one of the 4 tracks....
I thought I could solve this by locking the video and deleting 3 of the audio tracks so everything would just have 1 audio channel (I dont need the other 3 for my editing purposes)... However, it still causes the audio to behave oddly and jump 2 tracks rather than one....
How do I fix this?? I don't even understand what is really happening here.
-p

Hmm after looking at it, it seems that what's happening is even though 1 audio track is assigned to each video track, FCP thinks that there should be 2 audio tracks? So when I move a video track to the next video channel, the audio is moving down two audio tracks instead of one...
Ok, so atleast I do understand WHAT is happening, I just don't know why.
-p

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