Compressor mistakenly opens Quicktime mov as Surround Sound file

This is an ongoing problem I can consistently run into. When I have Compressor open and I drag-and-drop a video into the main Compressor window, it thinks it's a surround-sound file. It's strange but when this happens, the only way I can bring it into Compressor as a video file is to drag-and-drop the video file onto the Compressor icon on the dock.
This is also the case after I've created a droplet for converting a QT movie to a lower-res h264. The droplet starts spitting out Surround Sound files. Is there any way to fix this?
Thanks!

The Windows based system, that generated the .MOV, has a Canopus DV Storm-RT card installed and the project preset was Canopus DV 48K. I tried a new project preset, Standard DV-NTSC, without the Canopus, and it works correctly. Wow, I didn't know that the Canopus card would "flavor" the output file in different formats such as QuickTime. Thanks!

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