No Audio Playback of FCP Sequence

I have a 30 minute video sequence in FCP that I want to finish by editing the audio effects and add music in Soundtrack Pro, which seems like the logical choice of application given the title.
However, after "sending to multi-track project" the sequence to ST Pro, and waiting about 5 minutes for the DV project to "uncompress" the audio, there is no playback of the audio in ST Pro. I can add a music or sound effect and that plays back perfectly, but the voice audio from the DV sequence does not play. The playhead progresses and the video is moving, but it's all Charlie Chaplin ya know...silent movie.
Any ideas?

I've never run a component conflict test is there a tool for that or is this a command in terminal?
There may still be some "tools" around to help with the process but you still have to run playback tests yourself and evaluate the results. The process is quite simple. You just need to "hide" one or more components, open the QT Player, and play a file to see if it is now working correctly. If it isn't, then continue "hiding" additional components. If the file does play correctly, then you have found a conflict and can start "unhiding" components to determine which one (or combination of components) is causing the problem by removing any "problem" components to an external location such as your desktop. Just remember to close the QT Player after each playback test. This is required (or at least used to be required) for the regeneration a new list of components available for use.
I used the term "hide" above since I simply keep a "Disable" folder handy in my Library QT Component folder for just such tests. Placing a component or set of components into the folder temporarily "hides" it from the QT Player when it next generates a list of the components available for use. Specific strategies vary. I sometimes use use a binary tree approach to hide the components (I.e., "hide" half of the components instead of one at a time.) Unfortunately, I don't know exactly how this works with regard to QT X. So, I would likely run such tests in the QT 7 Player. So far, when everything is working correctly in QT 7 Player, QT X seems to be able to play the same file(s) in QT X via the 32-bit switching process.

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cheers and thanks from OZ.

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