Mysterious popping noises and dropouts

I have a very new iMac with 8 GB of memory so I doubt system performance is a part of my troubles, but Logic 9.1.1 keeps giving me trouble on a project I'm working on. In a few places on the song, the audio on a couple tracks drops out for a few milliseconds and then back in. This isn't due to compression or limiting or anything and I have attempted raising the buffer size, turning on/off low latency mode, and nothing seems to matter. There is now also a quiet pop that occurs in just two places in a long trumpet accompanying part.
Needless to say this is incredibly frustrating. Oh, also, this happens on headphones and on studio monitors.
Any ideas?

And since you are from cupertino, maybe knock on the door of your neighbour...
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