Locking Audio Track

Hi,
I am on Pro CS4 & as I am doing a Music Video & have ALREADY mixed & mastered the track in professional studios (& the audio is completely finished) - just want to LOCK the audio track in the Timeline in Pro (so nothing can accidentally be imported over it or any  modifications can occur to the audio track).
I did import the 16-bit audio track (don't believe I can import 24-bit or 32-bit there - PLEASE correct me if I am incorrect on that), & now I simply want to LOCK that audio track "Audio 1" so it cannot be altered or modified in any way from now on.  Read up but could not find this.
Many thanks!

I clicked the "toggle sync lock" (if that's what you mean), but it still allows me to bring other files into the timeline & overwrite it (the main audio file).  Unless that's not what you meant..

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