Audio track problems.

A new user of Premiere Elements 8. I imported a 50 minute, home-made video from a DVD (originally shot on analog tape) into the program. The trouble is that the audio track sometimes plays, most often does not. The visible waveform sometimes appears, sometimes not. Then again, sometimes the sound will play with the waveform visible, but often it does not. I can't depend on the audio track to play, and so I cannot edit the thing without it being present. The computer has 4 GB of memory, Quad-core 2.7 GB processor, NVidia GeForce 9400 GT Video Card - 512MB DDR2.
What would cause the audio track to intermittently drop out and reappear, along with the visual of the waveform?

Bill,
What I ultimately ended up doing was to take the clip in question (this time in .AVI format, converted from the original .VOB) and convert it into an .MV4 clip. I imported this into the existing .PREL file and the audio worked fine, along with displaying the waveform. I don't know why the original .VOB clip didn't work, even after conversion to .AVI, but there was something about it that the program didn't like.
Thanks for your continued advice and suggestions, and also for your comments about converting analog VHS files into digital AVIs. I'm looking into getting one of those Canopus ADVC 300 units that you speak highly of. If I convert a VHS into an .AVI file through this device and burn it to DVD using Premier Elements 8, will the disk have the same video/audio quality that I get from digitizing a VHS tape through my Panasonic DVR E-85H and editing it on the hard disk in this unit, then burning it to DVD?
Barry

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