Audio synch problem

I have a 1 1/2 hr program in HDV that I'm having audio synch problems with during export. All my frame rates for my clips are the same as well as my audio sampling rates. It will start fine, then be slightly off and by the end of the program that audio is behind by about 3 seconds. I've tried all formats, reference file, self-contained, Anamorphic DV and still no luck. Any ideas?

Exporting Quicktime movie...current settings, video and audio....just uncompressed right out of FCP.

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