Audio tracks move around by themselves after I render!

I've been using keyframes to alter the volume of audio tracks. When I render the audio, I find that either the track itself I'm working on - or totally unrelated tracks - gets chopped up and in the wrong order, as if somebody had "cut and pasted" different parts of the clip and dumped them down in the wrong place!
This is extremely irritating and has all the signs of a bug. Is that the case, or am I doing something wrong?
Please help as I have a tight deadline and was not expecting something so crazy to happen via simple volume editing!
Thanks.
p.s. why can't I choose Final Cut Express on the product list?

You really need to provide the info that Mr. Wolsky requested to get a good answer.
Certainly the difference is sampling rate is a problem, but to advise you correctly more information is needed - to make sure you are using video with a codec and frame rate that is appropriate for FCE.
If you are using video directly from a DSLR,, for example, in H.264 at 24fps, then you have additional problems that can cause the symptoms you are reporting.
If it is to much info for you to type, then select a source clip in the browser and type Command+9, then take a screen shot of the item properties and post the screen shot here.
Do the same with your sequence.
MtD

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