Hear no audio in FCP 5

I have imported clips with both video and audio to FCP 5 on my G3 Mac OSX version 10.4.11.  I can hear the clips using Quicktime viewer; but no audio when in FCP.  I see the audio meter "reading" the audio, so there is audio playing in the timeline.  There is no audio through my speakers nor through the headphones. Thanks in advance, for any assistance!!

Can I guess that these video clips have NOT been converted to codecs that FCP works with? Say, AVI, or MP4 or M4V...or .mov that is mpeg-2 or H.264. 
FCP doesn't just work with any QT video format.  No, it is designed to work with BROADCAST video formats.  And you will need to convert those files to something FCP works with.  To see what those options are, look at the EASY SETUP list.
If you want to work with those formats as they exist, you need another NLE.  Adobe Premiere Pro handles this well.

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