Bad audio during DV capture

I've just moved up from iMovie 04 and I seem to recall the bug/problem was the same back then. When using Formac's firewire DV converter to capture VHS to iMovie, it sees the video just fine and in the importing process I HEAR the audio fine too, but when playback of the clip, the video looks fine, but the audio is horribly corrupted with a "machine gun" audio that has no connection to soundtrack. As far back as iMovie 04 I think that was the same problem. Does anyone have a solution? It's odd that during import all seems well. The quality of the capture is better than some other 3rd party DV capture apps out there (such as Quicktime Broadcaster!) because the primary difficulty with them is proper FPS even though that setting is made (either 29.97 or 30 FPS). Those apps are usually underpar.
I think this MAY be an audio rate sampling. iMovie may be capturing in one rate but playback is bad because is in another rate? How can this be fixed?

We got this fixed by having someone (and Apple Genius) show us that the Apple Final Cut Express preferences were under the /Users/<username>/Library/Preferences path. We had only looked in the /Library/Preferences/ path. We didn't realize there were two places for preferences.
So, Tom, you were right.
Chalk it up to Mac newbie ignorance.
Thanks for your help.

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Message was edited by: Keith R Thompson

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