Final Cut 10.1.1 Export Issues & Popping Noise

I've been having some very strange problems that I've never heard of before in Final Cut. First off, I downloaded historical footage I needed for this edit from Youtube as .MP4's, cut them together with some audio, and had everything ready to go. Inside of Final Cut, play back was great. I then tried exporting, and I got the "The share operation "Master File" has failed. The operation could not be completed because an error occurred when creating frame 80 (error -1)." The frame number changed between frame 80 and frame 23, seemingly at random. I started out by Goggleing. I tried deleteing my render files, turning off background render, deleteing my preferences, making a new project and pasting everything in, duplicating the project, and more. Absolutely nothing worked. I then started the process of elimination, and deleted parts of by timeline to find the problem. As it turns out, I had to delete my two compound clips (both only audio) and put them in the timeline without a compound clip. It then finally exported, only to find that one of my clips had a ridiculous popping noise, exactly like the Final Cut 10.0 bug. I've tried changing my sample rate, converting the video, exporting the orginal clip's audio with Quicktime then syncing it with the clip in Final Cut, and even just adding an effect to see what happens. The popping still remains. Any ideas? I couldn't find anyone on the web with this problem that's back from the dead. Being able to use compund clips would make the edit a whole lot easier too. Thoughts?
Here's my computer specs, if they help:
2011 27' iMac
Quad core i7 processor with four virtual cores (8 cores total)
16 gigabytes of RAM
256 gigabyte SSD
2TB HDD (I've tried transfering the edit to both drives, no luck.)
At this point I'm ready to reinstall Final Cut, but I haven't done it before, and I don't know what it entails. I'd prefer not to lose prefernces, etc. In general, I'd rather not have to do that though.

Luis, just to add to my previous post, I just found a removal process online that is specifally for removal from Mavericks. Can you verify if this is the one to use over FCS Remover (which I think is for previous versions). Here is what I found:
In Finder, choose Applications from the Go menu.
Locate the Final Cut Pro application and drag it to the Trash.
In Finder, hold down the Option key and choose Library from the Go menu.
In the Library folder that opens, open the Application Support folder. Move the Final Cut Pro folder to the Trash.
Return to the Library folder and open the Caches folder. Move the "com.apple.FinalCut" folder to the Trash.
Return to the Library folder and open the Preferences folder. Move the following files to the Trash:
com.apple.FinalCut.LSSharedFileList.plist
com.apple.FinalCut.plist
com.apple.FinalCut.UserDestinations.plist
I just want to make sure so I don't have any problems with a fresh download from the Apple Store.
Thank you again!

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