Losing parts of audio clips while merging them to video

Hello,
This is my first post to this forum... I need some help with a newly installed Final Cut Pro 5.1.2. I usually edit with Avid and thus am not super familiar with Final Cut Pro.
Here's the thing: I have a problem syncing my separate audio and video clips together. Well actually the syncing part goes fine; I create an inpoint in the video and in the audio clip, merge them together using inpoints. What happens is a impeccably merged clip - except most of the audio is gone. The audio clip just ends way before it did the original audio file - you can see this clearly when dragging the merged clip into the timeline. It is always the end of the clip that is missing, and usually it is most of the clip's duration also.
What I'm saying is that when viewing a merged clip I get something like 15 seconds of perfectly fine material in sync and then usually quite soon after the clap the sound just disappears.
I have tried with several clips but the result is the same every time. I wonder whether it is some kind of setting somewhere that is causing this --- just haven't found it yet.
At the moment I'm yieldig the problem with the nesting feature but I really want to know what the problem with merging is.
This is kind of urgent so I am grateful if someone has any insight in this, or tips - I don't even know where I should start to look for a solution to this.
Thank you!
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hello
Thanks for a quick reply
Hmm, it seems that I am really clueless about Final Cut Pro..I am not really sure what multiclip editing means.
My audio and video are from completely different sources. I am syncing with the 'merge' feature. I mark inpoints to both of the clips in the viewer, then click them active in a bin. Then I click the 'modify' tab, then 'merge'. Then select 'by inpoints'. And this way I get a new clip in my bin that contains both the audio and the video.
This is helpful as I have a lot of material and I actually didn't even realize before your post that you CAN sync in the timeline... It does seem, however, somehow less convenient. (Is this a misconception?) I'm really not familiar with different syncing and linking options in Final Cut so I might be doing this the hard way...Is there another way to link video and audio clips to each other so that they appear as a single clip in the bin?
"When you lose audio can you unlink the two and drag you audio down to match?"
I only realised after your post how the linking function works - I am able to link and unlink clips on the timeline with no problems. That is actually what I'm going to do from now on if I don't get the 'merge' tool to work.
I am sorry that I sound like somebody who hasn't even read the manual...(Tried that). I am just really used to working with Avid and got this Final Cut Pro project with really short notice - I don't necessarily know some of the functions in FCP, as I don't even know to look for them. The merge tool resembles Avid's AutoSync and that's why I'm trying that first.
Also I am not a native English speaker so I might have explained my case a little vaguely, sorry about that.

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