New Send to Color/XML problem

Well new to me anyway. Maybe someone has seen this and can help me get around it. I finished an edit and sent the 85 shot sequence to Color. The sequence has only video clips in it with no filters, no off-speed shots, nothing but dissolves between shots. When Color finishes importing the sequence at the head of the timeline there is one big long clip that's not the right shot and it's the same 3 seconds of video over and over. It looks like part of the XML made it to Color because there are dissolve icons laid over this big clip where they are in Final Cut. After that in the Color timeline are the rest of the shots in the sequence from Final Cut. I tried breaking the sequence in half and sending that to Color but I got the same results with a different big long clip (and the dissolves) at the head of the timeline. Anyone seen this one? Help is appreciated.

I went back to FCP and removed all dissolves from my sequence and in doing so I noticed there was a clip that had the speed set to 99%, somehow "remove atributes" missed that. I re-sent to Color and everything seems to be working just fine now.
Hey Apple an update to this awesome software would be much appreciated, Soundtrack Pro2 too.

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