Help with multi track project

Hi all,
So I recorded my church's worship and sermon on GB through the local sound system. We upload the sermons onto the church's website, and use the worship recordings for practice. I muted all but the one version of the sermon I wanted and saved, clicked Send to itunes, and waited. The itunes version ended up having all six tracks (3 sermons and 3 worship sessions) overlayed, making things incomprehensible. I went back to GB and reopened the project to find that only the first track (worship session 1) had any "fuzzy lines" (i.e sound waves) on it, and it was all of the tracks overlayed again. The other 5 tracks were just flat lines that had no sound. I am at a loss on what to do. Any suggestions?

Before muting Tracks and exporting to iTunes did you have the waveform on all Tracks and did each Track contain a discrete sermon?
(Usually I solo the one Track instead of muting the others, but that really shouldn't make a difference.)
After saving I suppose you didn't somehow un-mute the Tracks? When you went back to the Project were the Tracks still muted?
And you say you went back to GB and "reopened the Project." Why did you close it at all? (maybe a silly question but I'm spit-balling here.)

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