Audio mangled when outputting to uncompressed QuickTime movie.

I'm trying to export video and audio to an uncompressed QuickTime movie. (8-bit video, 48KHz Linear PCM audio). I'm having problems with the audio. My music tracks are coming out fine, but the voiceover track is messed up. It's there, but the volume jumps from barely audible to normal volume to back again about once a second. When I play it in Final Cut Pro, it sounds fine.
Same results whether I output via Compressor or directly from Final Cut Pro (version 5.1.4).
Any suggestions?
Thanks.

The problem turned out to be a very strange one. This is a project that I haven't opened in over a year; in that time, I've switched Macs, going from PowerPC to Intel. Turns out there were filters applied to all of the dialogue tracks that were clipping them. Either:
1) those filters weren't there before, and they were mysteriously added due to some bug in FCPro
2) they were put there deliberately by me, but didn't used to behave in a way that clipped the dialogue.
2 seems more likely than 1. Removing those filters made it work.
Thanks.

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