Audio moving around within a piece?

Ok, this is one of the weirdest things I've ever seen. We have been tweaking a feature film soundtrack for a client, going back and forth on minor adjustments over the past month or two. They called me yesterday to tell me that near the end of the film, there's a 1 minute chunk of audio from somewhere in the middle of the film. when that 1 minute chunk ends, the soundtrack continues on in perfect sync like nothing ever happened.
It's not like the soundtrack is 1 minute longer, which would indicate an accidental copy/paste into that area. the audio that should be there was somehow replaced by this other section from earlier in the film (a section we didn't touch, by the way, so copy/paste is highly unlikely), and then when it ends, the track continues on normally.
We have only used Soundtrack Pro (v1.1) to make levels adjustments and to clean up a couple of pops here and there in the track. No other application (other than FCP) has touched this file. I've confirmed that the raw capture from Digital Betacam tape is correct, that the AIFF exported from FCP is correct, and that all of the revisions up to the most recent are correct. The most recent adjustments we did were to the audio levels near the end of the film, in that area.
I have no idea what could have caused this, and i'm hoping it's human error, but i'm wondering if anyone has a suggestion as to what this might be? ideas?
-perry

Oh well, nice try.

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