Audio guys, LAME command line question

Hey I know this is not the exact forum for this question but I figured you guys could help me better than anyone. I have a G5 running tiger server and a website that is recompressing uploaded MP3 files using LAME via command line. LAME seems to be mangling some of the files by creating distorted filed and 0 byte sized files. I am wondering is there an any other mac program that I can use to reencode mp3 files with the terminal and command line? LAME is said to be great but the files that are already at the frequency that I want (44.1) are converted ok but everything else is just mangled... any suggestions. Thanks!

I guess I'm looking for either:
a suggestion on why LAME might be messing up files, maybe someone wlse who had similar issues with LAME and found a fix
or
another mac program like LAME that I can run via command line through PHP to convert files.
I'll play with automator and see if the itunes option might work.
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