Audio Tracks in Timeline

While working in Final Cut Pro 4, some of my audio tracks in the timeline have a thin colored bar running along the entire top of the clip. Some clips have a lavender/light purple bar, some have a green bar, some have no bar at all. Some clips have a lavendar bar, which then changes to green.
What do these bars mean?! Nowhere in any of the Final Cut Pro manuals or in a third party book I own can I find even a mention of these color bars. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Thanks again for your time and trying to help. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough in beginning...it certainly was unintentional and I had no intention of wasting anyone's time.
Anyway, I also posted my dilmma on the LA Final Cut Pro User Group (http://www.lafcpug.org/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=97563&t=97561#reply_97563), and a guy came back with a response that pretty much explains the situation.
The bottom line is that if an audio clip has a different sample rate than the sequence, it will show up with a colored bar at the top of the audio clip. (The one thing that is not clear, however, is why the colored bar is sometimes purple, sometimes green, even in the same clip.)
Sure enough, some of my DV audio that originated from a older Canon XL1 had a bizarre sample rate of 48009.3 Hz. (Video caputred from the same camera also drifts out of synch if captured in blocks larger than 30 minutes. I'm guessing the problems are related.)
Here's a link to the guy's website with information on the issue and how to fix it:
http://www.rippletraining.com/engine/index.php?action=docs&doc=410
Anyway, hope this information is useful.
Thanks again for trying to help me, and again, apologies for any unintentional obfuscation on my part.
Regards,
Bill

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