Footage from HD 1080i in a 23.97 timeline.. help!

Alright folks i'm working on a feature and have hit a snag and would like your help. We shot some of the footage on a sony hdr-fx1 and the rest in true 24p so thus are editing in a 720, 24p timeline. When I drop the footage I edited from the fx1 (editing in fcp6) into the timeline, it put gaps in between the clips (so i had to bring them all back together) and also introduced a kind of stutter in the video. I can live with it, but its very annoying, anyone have any thoughts? I've tried exporting whole sequences which gets rid of the gaps, but it still has the stutter which could just be because of the 24p timeline, but i thought FCP6 allowed for integration of multiple frame rates within a timeline, any thoughts?
Going from this timeline:
HD (1440x1080), 29.97, compressor HDV 1080i60
to:
HD (960x720), 23.98, compressor DVCPRO HD 720p60
Any thoughts? Thanks!

Yeah.. the master's hoping to be transfered to HD. Usually we have everything synced on our end to AE via EDL so we just change the clip frame rates and the timeline frame rate, although this is one of the rare cases where they brought us an already edited FCP document all in 29.97, and the 3:2 cadence doesnt line up per edit. EDL fails when we try due to the nested sequences.

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