Best setting for imported audio?

Apologies in advance if this is an obvious question... I'm a 98-pound FCP weakling....
A local dub house converted some old analog video for us. They delivered the files in muxed MPEG2 format, which seems strange... but even odder, the audio track appeared invisible to Quicktime Player and FCP. I was finally able to hear the audio with MPEG Streamclip, and exported the file to DV-NTSC. Now FCP can import the file, but the audio must be rendered before it will play.
MPEG Streamclip reports the following properties for the original file:
Video Tracks:
224 MPEG-2, 720 × 480, 4:3, 29.97 fps, 7.00 Mbps, lower field first
Audio Tracks:
160 PCM stereo, 48 kHz, 1.54 Mbps
So my questions are:
1. What format should I convert the audio to, that will make FCP happy (and not require audio rendering)?
2. What would be the ideal video/audio format for future analog-to-digital transfers?
Thanks for any advice...

Okay, I'm trying to export from MPEG Streamclip, but can't find a way to export AIFF. Using the "Export to DV" dialogue, there's no option about audio other than a 48k checkbox. The "Export to Quicktime" dialog offers more controls, but only offers the following audio options:
IMA 4:1
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