No audio in events library

When previewing clips using the events library, some clips do not playback their audio. I have audio skimming turned on however about half of my clips in my event do not play audio. If I drag to the timeline they playback fine. There is absolutly no dfference in media between the clips that playback/skim audio and those that do not.
One thing that I have noticed however is that the problem clips (those not skiming audio in the events library) have an "(id)" appended to the end of their file names in the "Orginal Media" folder within the "Final Cut Events" folder. The clips that skim audio have their original file name. Are these two things related? Does anyone know what is happening here?
Thanks.

Thank you Tom for your reply. Your suggestion to look at the QT inspector prompted me to check the inspector within FCPX as well to try to spot a difference between those clips that were skimming and those that were not.
For some reason the problem clips have a Channel Configuration set to Custom. FCPX apperantly tries to auto-detech the channel config and it seems to have gotten it wrong. Setting the Channel Configuration for these clips to Four Mono has solved the issue (my clips have four channels of mono audio). Thanks for the help.

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Message was edited by: Lorna from Hawaii

Hi Lorna,
for quite a while, I'm watching with admiration and a good portion of amusement (no offense meant!) your tenacity to win the struggle with movie-making in general and iM in special ...
in this case, we have to get less 'practical' advice, but more 'concept thinking':
in real-life, people like to store things in drawers - there's a drawer for socks, another for shirts. What if you need red socks for a red shirt? you have to search manually in both drawers.
now, computers: since iTunes, Apple tries to teach people to use tags: there's a big basket with socks AND shirts, but each has tags, (sock, red, wool, old, holes ... ). A computer is much faster than you to organize this mess: one click 'red' and you instantly get any red socks and red shirts!
back to movie making:
what you want is drawers (=folders), you can manually organize. The Big Brother of iMovie, FinalCut call them bins.
but you'll find in iM a knob with a key on it - KEYWORDS (tags)! it allows to tag each clip, or part of, with as much keywords you like ... hmm, you need.
the better you apply keywords to clips (and iM allows to use your very own keywords, adding 'dogs', 'birds', 'socks ...), the better - and faster - you'll find material for your Projects!
it is very different to real-life, and we do this discussion with ANY 'switcher', who doesn't trust that concept when importing their 45GBs/thousand 'drawers' music Libraries ... or, same in iPhoto.
face recognition is such a thing ... = I have to organize thousands of pics from my son's soccer team - the computer identifies in seconds each member of the team; a click later, I get all stills showing Player #2.... that is MUCH easier than manually searching in dozens of folders (2009? 2010? April? December? The Big Match? Training? ... )
... spend some time off the computer with a pencil and some sheets of paper. what are YOUR keywords? what are the properties, you're most searching of? make a list of your keywords. consider future usage too. and, you can add additional keywords later. keep it simple & short - after finding all 'birds' clips, you can search for the robin manually ...
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Events are meant for a 'time' structure, not content.
Use Keywords.
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