Audio track during export corrupted in Final Cut Express 4

I'm using final cut express in the latest version for the cut of a movie from different compresses sources from digital camperas (.mov, .avi, etc.). Everything is now set, the movie would be ready for export and looks good in preview.
After exporting the movie (no matter, if I compress the file or not) in the middle of a 5 minute take the audio track gets a problem (at 15mins. in the movie) and repeats the same sequence of audio (2 secs) until the end of the take (sorry don't know the correct english expression for that). After that other takes code fine again. Video is no affected and code without problem.
This error is repeatable on my machine, no matter which version of Final Cut Express I use (before and after the latest updates) and operating system (10.5 and 10.6). Also a reconnection of all videos and rendering of the complete movie did not help.
I'm really lost here, any ideas? I don't even know a workaround.

Thanks! Downloaded Streamclip and tried my first conversion. However, now I even made FCE crash;-) The H.264 codec seems not to be the right one. What would be the best one? Apple Intermediate Codec / Apple Motion Jpeg / Apple FCP uncompressed 10bit / Apple FCP Uncompressed 8 Bit / ..... I'm somehow lost in the possibilities and goo gle didn't help either. So I have to count on you again. Any suggestions?
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