Audio Export option for Quicktime

Finishing a 1 hr doc for broadcast. The sound designer gave me a 2 stereo stems, one music and one dialogue. Each stem has a left and right channel (-1,1). All soundws good and balanced. My question is, I'm exporting a master quicktime to send to the tape house. Should I choose:
Channel Grouped
Stereo Downmix
Discrete Channels
All sound the same when I change in sequence settings. Never an issue before (I alway left on default Grouped), but wanted to be sure.
Cheers

... and naturally, no sooner do I post this rant then I discover the answer.
The very first thing I tried, "Export to disk" actually did the right thing. However, my nice, shiny iMac, barely out of the box, has .m4a files configured to open with iTunes, not Quicktime. So when I double-clicked the exported slideshow file, I only heard audio, even though the photos were included. Ctrl-clicking and choosing "Open With... Quicktime" did the right thing.
Whew! That was frustrating. Thank goodness I figured it out, because it was driving me NUTS.

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