Audio Render and New FCP Versions

An odd, annoying, time-consuming problem which I hope somebody can help with...
A client has brought some audio files mixed in FCP to me for mastering. She has FCP 5.0.?, I have 6.0.4 on my Mac Pro and 5.1.4 on a G4 Quicksilver.
On opening some of the aif stereo mixes that my client had exported, we found numerous clicks and pops that needed fixing (par for the course, it seems, when getting "creative" with sound in FCP?). In addition, much of her audio seemed randomly in mono.
We opened her original FCP projects and, again, much of the audio was in mono. We quit, deleted render files and restarted - now we had the stereo back. For some reason her system was rendering in mono.
But now there was another problem. She's been very creative with the "speed" setting on imported sound clips, but the pitches were frequently wrong. For instance, a sound she had set to "Speed 35%" was now at 9%.
We opened the project on the G4, hoping that as the FCP version was closer to hers, we'd be safe. Now, the same clips no longer referenced the same bits of the original audio files, leading to incorrect sound or silence. And the "speed" was now set to "variable". We spent a few hours trying to sort this out - in the end she has gone home to try to sort it out on her own rig before coming back to me.
Is this kind of thing common - audio settings such as "speed" corrupting when opening projects in later versions of FCP, or file references scrambling? Or am I getting something very basic, very wrong?
(btw - we always worked on copies of the FCP projects, so she still has her originals to work with).
Is there any particular settings I should be using, or workaround to avoid this?
Thanks!
Mark.

Here's a couple of answers. I don't see any difference between what I sent to STP and what I got back as far as Vid Rate (23.98), Frame Size (1440x1080) or Aspect (HD 1440x1080). Where I do see differences is in the number of tracks (4V,10A for original and 4V,8A in what comes back - I cleaned up the music track in STP and made it one music track). Also I noticed Audio Output went from 2 to 6. But, where I'm seeing the need to render is on the video track. When I import the video, I am using the HDV - 1080p24 preset.
As to what is in this video: some 108024p video, lots of images, text and title blocks, VO, music, and the associated audio track for the standups and b-roll.
Thanks,
dave

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