Browser says Advanced pulldown didn't take: try cinema tools?

I'm in the midst of capturing many hours of interview footage shot in 24PA on a DVX100a. Although I always use the advanced pulldown capture setting, my results are inconsistent at best. According to FCP5's browser, some of my captured clips are 23.xx fps while others are still 29.xx fps.
1) Can I trust the accuracy of the info I see in the FCP browser with regard to the frame rate of my captured clips?
If so,
2) Should I now go back and try to recapture the clips that are listed as being 29.xx fps? Or would I be better off using Cinema Tools, which I understand can remove the pulldown from an already captured clip. One factor in my reluctance to re-capture is because there are occassional TC breaks in my footage that I often have trouble removing pulldown on the fly.
Thanks!
Powerbook G4 15"   Mac OS X (10.4.4)  

I had this problem once with DVCPro HD, and found the problem to be that if my capture started in bars & tone (I would go 1 second into them, to ensure I got every frame of video), FCP would take the B&T frame rate for the whole clip, which happens to be 60i. So as a result, any clip that had B&T at the head was at 60, while any other clip that started midway through the tape was fine. Perhaps you have the same situation, where you are capturing a camera generated signal, which will be at 29.97, so FCP assumes that that is the frame rate you're going for.
Hope this helps.
Craig

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