Audio captured as stereo not mono

FINAL CUT EXPRESS HD VERSION 3
I have read topics where users were complaining of the opposite. Tom Wolfe reckons audio should be captured as dual mono. However mine was captured stereo (most inconvenient as i record two seperate mics).
Another post on a slightly different topic suggested deleting the preferences files. This cured the fault.

Thanks for your reply.
I'm sure that gets round the problem but I sometimes like to first adjust sound for the whole clip in the Viewer. Then every instance of this clip pasted in the canvas has roughly the right level and pan.
I have done some more research. This machine has both Final Cut Pro 5 and Final Cut Express 3.0 on it.
It seems if I capture in Pro (I do this because it can batch log and capture) with 2 mono tracks, then import those DV mov files into Express, they appear as having only one mixed mono track. From this point on any capturing in Express gives a stereo pair for the audio rather than 2 mono tracks. I assume this is a bug.
This is a work machine and I am trying to discover the main differences with Express and Pro so that we can give laptop users the Express (cheaper!) version. Maybe having the two apps on the one machine is causing these problems. I would have expected files created in FCP to import OK into Express, they are QuickTime files after all.
I have Express version 3.5 at work so will maybe try that next.

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