BROADCAST SPEC MPEG2

I have been asked by a TV station to provide the following the spec below.
Can anyone advise how or if I can achieve this in Final Cut Pro 6.06 and compressor 3.03.
Thanks so much in advance for any help you can give.
Steve
"XDCam HD 422 – MXF Container
MXF Container:
Video:
Chroma Sampling:
Constant Bit Rate:
Picture Size:
Format:
Frame Rate:
Aspect Ratio:
Sequence Header:
Intra DC Precision:
Field dominance:
MXF OP1A
Codec:     MPEG-2 (422P@HL, MPEG HD 422)
Chroma Sampling: 4:2:2
Constant Bit rate: 50 mbit/s
Picture Size: 1920 x 1080
Format: 1080i25 or 1080psf25
Frame Rate: 25 fps
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Sequence Header: on each GOP
Intra DC Precision: 10 Bit
Field Dominance: Topfield first
Audio:
Codec:
PCM (no MPEG)
48 KHz
24 bit/sample
Track 1-2  full mix English
Track 3-4 IT-Mix or mute
Track 5-6 mute
Track 7-8  mute

We export mxf files using FCP 6.0.6 after we downloaded the Sony XDCAM exporter. You have to build a 1440x1080 dual-mono sequence to do it, but so far, no problem. It takes a few minutes, but the file>export>Sony XDCam setting comes up. we just drag our finished sequences into the mxf sequence for export. I am still working on multiple audio tracks, however...

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    Picture Size:
    Format:
    Frame Rate:
    Aspect Ratio:
    Sequence Header:
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    Track 7-8  mute

    Not on FCS2...
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