Export Problem - Speed Changes

This is incredibly frustrating. I'm working on a MBP (10.4.11) using FCP Studio 2, STP v 2.0.1 and I am having an issue during export. I have a multi track project with 3 tracks connected to one bus in STP. The three tracks were sent in from my FCP project, I added some effects to the tracks, and now I want to export back into FCP. I tried it once, everything worked great, except that every so often, when I played the audio back in FCP, little parts of it would randomly speed up and the pitch would change - obviously this is a problem. I have since tried exporting it using compressor but it doesn't seem to make a difference. Is this something wrong that I am doing in STP? I am really very new to STP, I read some other people talking about doing things like switching to mono tracks etc. - but I didn't really follow what they were talking about. I have to have this project done for a client very soon. Any help on this would be great. Thanks.

OK, I just fixed my problem. I referred to the knowledge base page that Mark W. posted at the top of the STP forum. The sample rate of the audio that I sent from FCP didn't match the export settings in STP. And while I don't think this should matter anyway, it seems to be a bug in STP that I hope Apple is going to take a look at. Matching the sample rate settings fixed my problem though. Here is the link for that knowledge base post:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306546

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https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2494
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