OMF back into FCP

Sent an OMF from FCP to audio post house for mixing many moons ago and now need to make amendments.
I have original pictures but need to reimport the audio back to FCP and I only have the OMF available
How can I get the OMF audio back into FCP with all the original edit points on the audio
instead of continuous tracks containing the clips?

Hi Dave,
thanks for your response. I've tried doing that and haven't had any luck. It's dawned on me that there a probably two good reasons why the audio is identical on left and right channels.
1. The first is that the J3 I originally diged from had previously been set to centre all audio. The deck was on hire so it's not unlikely. Normally you can toggle between channels on the front J3 panel 'Audio' button - but I now reckon that someone had adjusted the setting within the menu system. This is something I hadn't thought of at the time.
2. If this isn't the case, the sound recordist may have recorded everything in mono. Soon after I posted the question, the director of the film mentioned that the recordist had mentioned something to this effect but she wasn't absolutely sure.
I'm going to test a couple of the digibeta rushes at work tomorrow and find out.
If the tapes are stereo and I did mis-capture them, then I still have the problem of re-batch diging them from Avid. I'm also now thinking that the best thing to do is splash he cash and just hire a J3 for a day and batch conform through FCP.
Thanks again for your post, any other solutions would be appreciated!
Steve

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