Audio in a sequence falls silent right until the end of the sequence

Hmmm, ok, maybe I am completely clueless.... Anyway: I am making a video with 3 dv-clips that I imported previously. When I drag the clips from the browser into the timeline and render them, everything is ok and plays well. Then, after a little editing, i.e. cutting the sequences into smaller pieces, but leaving everything in the same sequence in the timeline, at some point parts from a sequence right to the end of it, fall silent. I can still see the audio in the viewer, but the audio meter itself shows zero audio and I can't hear anything anymore over the speakers. This goes right to the end of the sequence, the next sequence again starts with sound but also falls silent after a while, right until its end. Only the last sequence retains its sound right to the end. The silence starts at some point within a clip of a sequence, but there is no correlation to the marks of the sequence.
I have not (knowingly) done any audio editing, although I am working on a German keyboard and my menus show some odd commands, e.g. Cmd-Y for Undo because of this (the German keyboard goes QWERTZ and YXCV, so Y and Z exchange places) and I am still hitting Cmd-Z when I want to undo stuff, but Cmd-Z itself does not seem to have any function.
So, it looks like I am simply inadvertently giving FCX the command to shut up from a certain point in my clip onward right to the end, without actually silencing the data, since it is still visible in the viewer. I am stumped.
I had this happening to me a couple of times and the last time my only (desperate) remedy was to delete all the clips in the timeline, drag the originals back from the browser into the timeline, render again etc. etc. Well, rendering takes about 3 hours, so I'd rather prefer learning what the heck is the stupid thing I'm doing wrong. Any suggestions, anybody?

Well, not silly, just desperate;-) I tried a similar workaround. First I re-copied the two clips concerned into the sequence, cut them into pieces (it was a video of a concert, so I cut right after every song) and rendered the pieces separately. All went well, except for the last one, at which FCX had run out of memory again (how much does this s...er use anyway? I have 1.25 gigs of RAM, 4 gigs free on my boot partition and 20 gigs free on the document partition with the video; and NOTHING ELSE running). Anyway, repeating the render for the remaining clip was eventually no big deal either.
I saved after every step, so I would know, when something went wrong, but nothing did.
So, right now it runs oK, but leaves a somewhat stale feeling in my mouth, since I prefer knowing where the problems come from. My guess would be either a memory-related issue, or that, due to this strange shift in key commands owed to my German keyboard, I hit the wrong keys a couple of times and those did something elaborately strange to my audio tracks. Well, when it comes up again and I can catch the culprit, I will let you know. Thanx for your input for now;-)

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