Audio Channels in Timeline Keep Changing?

I have some audio tracks, on those tracks I inserted a .wav file that has 4 channels. I only need 2 channels. ( 1 and 2 ) I unlinked the audio and I am just using channels 1 and 2.
Channel 2 on the timeline keeps defaulting to Channel 1 - I change it and then next time I open the p[roject the audio on channel 2 goes back to channel 1.
I hope this makes sense.
This picture is what it needs to be
This picture below is what it changes to and I have to reset the channel.
Below is info on the audio channel
Im doing something wrong right?
I hope not because I have already layed in and adjusted all my audio.
Thanks for your help!

Thanks for your help. I haven't made a copy of the WAV.
In the timeline, the 4 channels are linked together. Ch1 is a LAV Mic, Ch. 2 is a Seperate LAV mic, Ch. 4 is a boom mic and there is nothing on channel 3.
So I unlinked the WAV file in the timeline and removed the audio channels that I did not need in the timeline.
Then I moved the 2 LAV mics to Audio Channels 1 and 2 on the timeline.
I think that is when I noticed that both Channels were the same... not sure - I have moved stuff around so many times.
So in the timeline, I would "right mouse click" on the audio track in the timeline and modify the audio clip by clicking on audio channels.
As a work around, I modified the LAV audio clips in the timeline to where they needed to be and did an audio mixdown of just my LAV mics. Brought that file back into the timeline and muted the others that kept changing on me.
Does that help? Thanks again!

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