Changing Audio "Speed"

I have a 35 minute video segment in Quicktime DV format. When I play the clip in quicktime, everything aligns flawlessly. However, once I import the clip into the FCP timeline sequence, the audio runs about 2 seconds behind the video by the end of the segment. FIRST, can anyone shed some light on what might be misaligning the audio and video? and SECONDLY, I have separated the audio from the video and am trying to figure out a way to change the rate or speed of the audio playback to sync it at the beginning and end to see if I can manually realign the audio and video.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Chris
intel iMac 20"; 1.67 GHz PB G4; Dual 2.3 GHz PowerPC G5   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

What happens when you convert the file to DV-NTSC? The audio should be 48khz/16bit.
DV stream is not a native FCP editing format and is the source of all sorts of issues.
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