Audio mixer having no effect

Hi all
Now it was late at night.. working to a deadline and I had all my tracks laid out and ready to go. As I have done many times before I brought up the audio mixer, changed my background music track to write (or latch or touch) and and ran it through fading up and down as usual.All looked normal -  BUT when I replayed it back my audio slider changes had had absolutely no effect  (as if I had been in read mode) .The slider stayed at 0 during playback.  Same with the other audio tracks when I tried.  If I add keyframes manually and drag up and down on the timeline -  all is fine (but sooo time consuming)    Opened another project and all worked fine.  It is a 1280x720 25 timline btw.  Any ideas? Thanks  Mike

Hey thanks Bill - it is a weird one.  When I looked at track keyframes I could only see the ones I manually adjust. Audio mixer is focused and all seems well - but it just does not populate the track with the zillions of keyframes you expect when you adjust the sliders on write.
  Anyway, my customer liked the end result and didnt even notice the flaky manually keyframed audio - which stood out to me like a sore thumb.
So next day I created a new sequence in same project  (with same sequence settings to match footage as normal) and then copy and pasted the whole (troublesome) timeline there - and then  it works just fine with the audio mixer in the new sequence!!  (just wish I has thought of that in the wee hours of the morning when I was trying to hit the deadline)
Curiosly, If I delete everything from the troublesome track and cut and past it back there from my new ( working) sequence - then I have same audio mixer problem -- so it is some glitch on that specific sequence - even though both appear identical.  One to watch for - but alls well that ends well. Thanks again
mike

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