"Export Audio To Movie" is out of sync - please help.

Hi
I recently upgraded to LP8.01 and am trying to put audio (sound design) to a piece of animation.
Despite the audio being perfectly sync'ed in Logic, when I bounce to Quicktime, the audio is anything from 0.5 to 1 seconds late in the resulting movie. The pice has lots of really quick edits and sound FX, so it can't work unless it's perfectly locked.
Does anybody have any tips or advice on how to get this working correctly? I've tried bouncing in chunks, starting before the movie file, after the movie file start, just the middle bit - none of the resulting movies are in time.
Many thanks for any help.
Jules

Please - gotta bump this because I'm really desperate to get this working.
Any help or ideas .....?

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This was emailed to Apple Support on 23 DEc 2012 at 09:50 Eastern Australia time.
"I continued to talk to other Apple Mac users on iMovie….Interesting to have found out that their movies were made using iDVD without any known issues as yet…Looking at the results from Apple Support Forum and Youtube, problems appears to be when NOT using iDVD. I and many others can't understand how these many technical problems were overlooked by the programmers of iMovie. One would have thought iMovie problems have been iron out prior to getting rid of iDVD. By the way when I first contacted Apple Support back on 16th Nov, I was told I need to RE-INSTALL my computer…..that I did and in the process my iDVD was removed and never was re-installed.
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While editing, my cuts are lined up with beats in the music, but after export they shift approximately 5 frames, making my cuts appear later.
The Sequence settings match the clip settings at 23.976 fps, and i've tried just about everything I can think of to fix the issue.
I've reverted back to previous Autosaves of the project, tried numerous export settings, separate and new projects, different machines, but nothing seems to work.
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