Invisible (but audible) "step" in a crossfade

Question

Hi guys, I try to describe the problem from the beginning:
1. A long audio clip on a single track;
2. I split the clip in many shorter clips... and they remain on the "native" single track (I put a mark at the beginning of any short-clip to visualize all the cuts).
3. So, I transform any short-clip into an indipendent audio file to give to every clip a different EQ (and someone has also a different space-designer setting).
4. Then, listening to the whole track you can hear an audible "step" when the playhead passes over the marks, obviously.
5. So, I try to do crossfades between adjacent clips, dragging the end of any clip over the next one by one second.
6. SOMETHING STRANGE: many times I try to do the crossfade but the pointer doesn't transform into the dragging tool...
7. THE PROBLEM: with my surprise, in almost all the crossfades I don't hear a smooth audio transition, but I hear a "step" just on the marks (the positions of the editing points on the track)!
Can I solve this problem? Where is the mistake?
Thanks guys, please, give me an answer.

Answer 1

oh yeah
i thought it was
(step=0; step<length; step?)
this would then make sense:
step+=40
:-P
i blame bill gates. clearly the OS is still not smart enough to perfectly filter my spelling and grammar.