Loosing audio when printing to tape.

I used FCE to edit my DV-material. It wasn't ever a problem.
I bought a HD-camera (Sony HDR-HC3) and edited a 40 minutes film from about 4 hours footage with FCE HD-3.0.
Editing is no problem. Making a DVD is O.K. But printing to tape is horrible. I loose parts of the music-tracks. Sometimes dropped frames etc. (And it takes a lot of time: about 4 hours to render!).
Many times I tried to print to tape. The problems exist every time in different places (except one place where the music always disappears).
I don't know how to loose this problem. I always mixdown audio, remove prefs etc. but till now no positiv result.
What to do?
G5-2x1.8   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Hi(Bonjour)!
If there is a song bought on iTune Music Store, you can't use this track.
Did you render an audio mixdown before export ?
Try a test version with just one minute of movie. (set in and out point in timeline and do the print to tape operation).
Try a print to tape from a cold start mac.
Drag your playhead around your sequence before printing (it's seem that this process load the cahe memory, at least in my own experience)
If the problem is still there, you can also do an audio track mix quicktime conversion export (aiff 16 bit) from your sequence, import it into a new sequence, open your previous edited one in editor (option clik), do uncheck audio A1 and A2 target, and drag the video content on V1 in the new sequence. Drag your exported audio on A1 A2.
Do a check for the synch of your movie.
Do not forget to do an audio mixdown before print to tape.
Does your hard drive is fragmented or full at more than 80% level?
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