Question about changing TimeCode of media clip

Hello,
The short I'm working on was shot in 35mm, 24fps. First of all, some info about the project:
- One-light transfer to BetaSP PAL (the dailies were sped up by 4% to match PAL's framerate), with burned in TC and keycodes
- Made a dupe of the dailies in DVCam PAL with slave codes so that the DVCam's address track matches the burned in TC
- Captured each lab reel as one long media clip into FCP (8 reels in total)
- Creat subclips for each scene and for sync'ing audio.
Everything worked out fine except for 1 lab reel. During the DVCam dupe, the TC jumped by 1 frame half way into the reel. So in the last half of this reel, the address track is 1 frame off (comparing to the burned in TC). Luckily, the TC jump didn't occur during any important scene.
Since making another DVCam dupe was not an option (long story about working in Asia), I thought of a way around this. I divided this reel into 2 sections at the point where the TC jump occured. I created an Auxiliary Code for the section with the 'bad' TC so that the Aux Code matches the burned in TC.
Now the rough cut is done. I need to export an EDL to re-telecine the neg for full grading.
My question: is it a bad idea to do an EDL with both regular TC and Aux Codes? Or should I just change the TC on the 'bad' reel ?
Sorry for the length explanation. Thanks in advance.
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G5 2.3GHz Dual Core, 4.5GB RAM, 2 500GB drives Mac OS X (10.4.4) Powerbook G4 on OS 10.3.9

You're probably fine using the Aux TC in your EDL.
In that case, should I create Aux TC for the lab reels with the correct TC as well (with the Aux TC being the same as the address track? That way the EDL would only deal with just the Aux TC rather than a mixture of regular TC and Aux TC.
you could make a new DVCam PAL from your
captured footage (restoring the matching TC with the
burned in TC) and then recapture the media you used
from the fixed section.
I don't have access to a deck that allows preset TC. Would it be the same if I just change the TC on the bad section? I know that typically it's not advisable to change TC in media clips. But in this case, it's just the dailies, not the final media.
TD

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•Multiple clips can be adjusted in the Browser timecode columns (such as Media Start and Media End).
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Modifying Timecode in the Browser or Item Properties
Most timecode settings can be modified in the Browser or the Item Properties window, but some fields are restricted to prevent accidental changes to many media files at once. When you modify particular Browser columns, Final Cut Pro warns you that the media file, not just the clip, will be affected.
The TC Rate item property (visible in both the Browser columns and the Item Properties window), always shows the rate of the source timecode track of a clip’s media file. The Aux 1 or Aux 2 timecode rates are never shown here. Use the TC Rate column in the Browser to adjust the timecode rate for many clips at once. Some timecode rates are not allowed for some video frame rates.
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