Mapping Audio Clips to Keyboard

I have finally gotten around to trying what HangTime described at this link (mapping sounds to keyboard)...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=931372&tstart=0
...I cannot seem to get this to work. I create a small audio clip (it is purple), I open up Musical Typing, drag the clip to a key, and it just bounces back and does not assign.
Am I missing a step?

I think I somehow set it up that way.
HangTime, here is something WILD! You're gonna LOVE this.
I did an experiment with this sound assignment thing and found that it created an EXS file in the project file. I did a little trickery, and created my own EXS instrument!! I could not believe it worked! I'm going to have to write up the steps on how to do this.

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As the title suggests, I can't use the mouse to move some audio clips in a timeline once I expand the track to view the waveforms. This appears to only happen with independent audio clips (WAV. AIFF, MP3, etc), and not with clips attached to video. Also, it's worth noting that I don't have track keyframes turned on. I was hoping that was it, but it wasn't.
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3) As soon as I expand the track to view the waveform this functionality goes out the window. When this issue happens I can use the keyboard to nudge left and right, but that's about all the movement I have.
4) It's almost as though the track becomes corrupt. The lanes for the track don't redraw properly, and the track is pretty much unusable. I can't put anything into it, and I can't take anything out. All I can do is delete the track and start again.
Complicating issues is that this doesn't always happen, but instead is one of those "vast majority of the time" issues. I can't see any rhyme or reason for why it works or doesn't. I seem to do the exact same thing, but occasionally get different results. It doesn't matter what type of file I'm using (WAV, AIFF, etc), and this only happens with independent audio clips.
Once again, I don't have track keyframing turned on when this happens. Believe me, I wish that was it.
I have already filed a couple of bug reports about this over the last month or so, but haven't heard anything yet. I was wondering if anyone else was having the same issue, and if so, whether they had any workarounds.
Mandatory system info:
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Intel i7-3820
32GB RAM
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Update:
I was just looking to post a screenshot of the timeline when I discovered something interesting. As soon as I use the vertical scroll bar to the right of the sequence, the tracks start to work again. Close off the waveform and the clip goes haywire. Move the scroll bar a tiny bit (or a lot), and suddenly the clip starts working.
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I received your email regarding the change in the length of an audio clip (on the secondary runway) in a slideshow with Aperture.
You tell me to change the length of an audio clip on the main track, I have to change out of Aperture. My audio clip is in my iTunes library.
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Evelyne, you are referring to your previous question in this discussion, right?
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