Can't separate audio channels into tracks

I have four channel audio that was recorded for a short film - a wireless lav for each of the two actors, a boom, and an empty channel. I have it setup as four mono and can tick the box that turns a channel on or off but I am unable to separate this into individual tracks in order to edit their levels individually or export for my sound editor.
The sound was synced in FCP X to the video for each clip, so what I have tried is selecting "break apart clip items" for a clip, which breaks the four channel audio out into one dual stereo track. Whether I change this to four mono again or not the end result is the same - I select it and choose "break apart clip items" again, at which point then I get this:
Every time. Three tracks, one of which is positioned ahead of the other two and goes on for what would be the total duration of the take. If you click any of these tracks the Channel Configuration is grey and says "Audio Channel Configuration is unavailable for the selected clips". If you solo any of the clips it sounds like it's just a mixed version of the four original channels.
I've tried going into the timeline of a synced clip and breaking apart in there but I get the same result as above.
I need to be able to access, edit, and export these channels as individual tracks. If all I can get is a premixed version of the four tracks then how am I supposed to do a sound edit and mix?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

I have tried both copying the tracks to a new sequence and also tried the Preferences Managers tool (thanks for that - great tool!). Still no luck. Any other suggestions?
I've attached a screenshot in case there is something obvious that I'm missing.

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