Managing multiple sub clips

I have just migrated from Final Cut Studio to Final Cut Pro X. I am trying to get my head around the workflow of managing clips and sub-clips. I am working on an interview, so I have a master shot which was recorded to tape and lasts an hour or so and is a single clip. I am having problems with the following:
a) I have an audio recording from a portable digital recorder which I need to synchronise to the master clip (it has a poor quality audio track from the camera's microphone). I have connected the digital audio track and removed the camera audio and it is more or less in synch but I can't see how to easily move the audio track in small increments to improve the synch with the interview video. (The automatic synch option failed - the digital audio was first followed by the camera video/audio, so the whole clip was over two hours.)
Any suggestions on how to do this with accuracy?
b) I started making subclips from the master track using keywords but I really want to give a sensible name to each of the subclips and then group them. I see that I can add additional ranges with Command Shift "i" - but if I forget and press just "i", I lose all the marked up ranges! I still have the subclips so I can add them one by one, but this seems very clumsy. Using keywords works okay - but I can't order them unless I name them alphabetically - again, its very clumsy. It seems to me that the developers assumed the clips would be short and probably only one in and out per clip. They must never work with a master shot from tape...
Any suggestions on a better way to do this?
Stephen
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Hi Karsten - thanks for the suggestions - I still haven't figured out how to move the audio clip by frame (rather than by dragging with the mouse) but it is more or less in-synch now.
I don't like the keywords option - I want proper name for each subclip and bins to put them in. Keywords on top of that would be great - but not instead of. That's how my mind works - a heirarchical structure provides a lot more information than the vagueness of subclips in multiple buckets - how do you know if you have included every subclip in your movie? How can you be sure you havent used the same clip twice? Also, if you delete the last keyword, the subclip vaporises! I have an hour long clip from the tape on the main camera for an interview. If i make a mistake at ANY TIME by pressing just "i" instead of Command "i" all my subclips vaporise - they still appear in the keyword collection but you cannot favourite them, and therefore you cannot name them individually. They are like phantoms!
I found a solution today after 2 hours with Apple support on the line - You can knife up the long clip, create new compound clips and give them a new name. Then you can use keywords to organise them - this is your only choice because you can't put clips in a folder. Its not ideal - if you knife in the wrong place you can't roll back the edit like you could with a subclip in the old Final Cut Pro.
I don't think the Final Cut Pro X development team use the product - there are so many problems related to assumptions they have made about the original material that it is very difficult to figure out how to use this software for a serious project. If you have lots of short clips then perhaps it makes sense - but if the keyword has to substitute for the name of the clip it becomes very unwieldy...
I recorded an interview - so every sub-clip has to tell me what the interviewee is saying. And then I want to organise the clips in a hierarchical system (I'm a computer programmer by trade). I want one copy of each clip in an order which makes sense to me. No extras! No multiple copies. Keywords is MUCH too vague...
Its not a professional's program any more. Every edit is now destructive - nothing goes to trash in 10.1.1 it just vaporises, and unless you remember to take a copy of your library before you start editing, if you delete something important you have to start again from the beginning. With a library of nearly 400Gb for this project, taking a copy is a big deal! I wonder if its the iMovie team who developed this software? If I hadn't thrown out my old software I would go back to the old version immediately.
This is a fiasco on the scale of the Apple Maps disaster... I hope they sort this out soon!

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