Immobile audio tracks?

I've really been trying to give FCPX a chance but this issue may be a deal breaker for me unless someone can tell me of a solution.
Okay...I've got five minutes worth of an exterior building shot. The guy who shot it was doing an extemporaneous narrative as he panned and zoomed around the structure. My chore is to make a pleasing 1-minute or so montage of visuals to go along with the audio edit. Since the audio edit was done first to make the narration cogent and the visuals serving to do nothing more than illustrate the v.o., the audio nor video are no longer synched together whatsoever. What I'm up against is having all these audio clips anchored to unrelated video clips and now I can't move the video around without reordering the audio.
I'm REALLY hating not having an independant audio track right now. I need the audio to stay put while I arrange the pretty pictures. I did make the audio a compund clip and it's now anchored to a video clip that's not going anywhere but that's just nonsense.

Wow. Cool. The continuing magic of the right-click! Having spent my formativetyears with a one=button Macmouse, I'm still getting use to having a right-click capability.
But that begs a question. (that I've posted elsewhere and received no answer so I'm glad for the opportunity to ask again in this context):
Say I want to do this. I right-click and FCP raises and places the video as the connected clip. But now I have to move the audio up. In past lives, one would expect to hold the shift key while elevating the audio to the storyline via click/drag so that it is locked in a vertical axis (as anything would in all other graphic apps) and so that it remains in place relative to the video that was moved up.
However this, from what I can discern, is no longer the case with FCPX. I hold the shift key when dragging something and...nothing. It just moves around willy-nilly. Is there a different key/click combine I  should be using? It seems odd that THIS app would be denied this valued feature.

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