Importing legacy clips - ends getting trimmed

We are working on a project that involves importing some older Quicktime movies into FCP 7 to update certain segments. The old movies were made with Adobe Premiere years ago (late 1990's) and apparently saved using a variable frame rate, they also contain an embedded audio track which we need to keep in sync.
The problem we're running into is that once these files are imported into FCP, a few seconds of the clip is cut off which is noticable mainly due to the missing audio at the end. It's as if FCP is getting it's math wrong and miscalculating the clip's duration.
We have tried converting the old clips in QT7 to a new file with a set frame rate to standardize it, and these files work. However, we have 100's of these to do, and are wondering if there's something we can do inside FCP to make these files work upon import?
Thanks to anyone who can shed some light.

Hi Christina,
My firewall is not allowing me to upload screenshots, but here are the clip and sequence settings:
Clip:
Size: 73.1 MB
Tracks: 1V, 1A
Vid Rate: 1fps (yes, this is incorrect. the variable frame rate talking I guess. really closer to 10fps)
Frame Size: 530x620
Compressor: None
Data Rate: 1.1 MB/sec
Pixel Aspect: Square
Anamorphic: (no value)
Gamma Level: Source
Field Dominance: None
Smooth Cam: --
Alpha: None/Ignore
Reverse Alpha: (no value)
Composite: Normal
Audio: 1 Mono
Aud Rate: 22050 Hz
Aud Format: 16-bit Interger
Angle: (no value)
Sequence:
Frame Size: 530 x 620
Aspect Ratio: Custom
Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square
Field Dominance: None
Editing Timebase: 29.97
Quicktime Video Settings:
     Compressor: None
     Quality: 100%
Audio Settings:
     Rate: 48 kHz
     Depth: 16 bit
     Config: Channel Grouped
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