Capture weirdness....again....shocking....

Hi all,
I am capturing miniDV tapes shot on a XL-1. Capturing is pretty straight forward and going okay, except this one tape stops 18 minutes in and says "problem with the tape, capture aborted, clip saved".
When i look at the clip in FCP, it has no duration, but when i look at it in the finder, it has a duration of about 18 minutes, and plays in QT. I tried to delete the clip in FCP and re-import the clip from the HD and it now says it has a duration of 0 seconds, but when i double click it it says its duration is 4 seconds, but still wont play.
can i export a new QT maybe and use it, or do i really have to do a batch capture for just under 18 minutes to make that clip work? Has anyone experienced this problem? I also have my settings so that it DOESNT abort on time code breaks, so the problem must be something to the tape...not sure what though.
i also cleaned the deck, to no avail. thoughts? thanks!
Austin

update: i just logged 17:50 of the tape and batch captured. However I'd still love to know what's happening if anyone knows...

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