Compressor 4 fails to mux AC-3 audio

I'm using the 'SD for Apple Devices' preset, and whenever I try to include Dolby Digital files in the output (via the checkbox), compressor encodes the file, tells me it "Failed", and leaves the pieces of the file in the output location demuxed. The video and AAC audio are muxed together in a .m4v-1 file, then there's a few other unknown files and the unplayable AC-3 file.
I can't even take the contents and mux them together - it's like there's a processing error with the actual encoding of the file.
I have Perian installed, and I thought that might be the problem, so I uninstalled it and tried, but I'm using AC-3 as source audio and without Perian it doesn't decode (even though Compressor alledgedly can natively decode AC-3...).
So, I'm kind of at a loss. What can I do?

Did you solve it ?
I had the same problem:
- disable Perian + reboot
- export with Compressor 4
- works - I have now Stereo + Dolby Track in my *.m4v !!
G.H.

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