AUDIO MYSTERY: FCP5

After placing a piece of music (AIFF) into the timeline to edit, I noticed the music doesn't always remember the INS & OUTS. Sometimes my marker slips, causing me to delete the music completely out of the timeline, then put it back in hopes it remembers where the INCUE and OUTCUE were marked. Does anyone have this problem too? I didn't have mysteries like this when I used FCP 4.5.
Is it my settings?
Any advice will be very helpful. It seems so inefficient if I have to redo my audio in the timeline.
Thanks
k chen

Hello k...
Your problem really isn't defined clearly... what do you mean? -
" I noticed the music doesn't always remember the INS & OUTS. Sometimes my marker slips, causing me to delete the music completely out of the timeline, then put it back in hopes it remembers where the INCUE and OUTCUE were marked."
???

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