Re-encoding an audio file in-place? Replacing it with a duplicate?

Here's a scenario for you:
Let's say someone sends me a bunch of stems in MP3 or M4A format. Then I drag them into Logic and start adding tracks. Eventually, the system starts getting overloaded by my effects and decoding all of those mp3's on the fly.
So, I seek for ways to unburden Logic from having to decode all of those mp3's in real-time.
One way to do it is to just freeze the track, but let's say I don't want to do that.
I could run each of the mp3's through a converter to convert them to AIFF, but then that creates a problem. Suppose I've chopped the stems into a bunch of different regions. I can't just drag the AIFF in place of the mp3 in the Arrange window because I'll lose all of my edits to the audio clip.
So, I was wondering... is there some way to go to Logic's Audio Bin (or somewhere else in Logic) and select an audio file and tell it "Stop looking at this location for this clip. I want you to get your audio info about it from here, instead"? The only way I can think of to do it is to close the project, delete/move/rename the original file, load the project, and then, when Logic complains about the missing audio, select "Locate" and force it to the file you want to switch to. But I was hoping there was a slicker way to "re-source" a clip.
Even cooler would be if Logic could do all of this and the conversion for me in one swoop... to be able to select an audio clip and say "Convert to AIFF" or "Convert to WAV". I looked in the clip-editing menus and didn't see anything promising.
Any ideas?

Select all in the audio bin, then in its submenu, 'copy/convert files', then choose AIF or WAV, whichever you like. Done.
Btw, it's not the best idea to be working with mp3s or any other kind of compressed audio format in Logic. Yes, converting them to a non-compressed format will unburden your system of on-the-fly uncompressing, but all the flaws in the sound from the compression process will still be left behind. If you're being sent stems in this format because you're working at a distance and are delivering via the internet, it might be worth looking into other file delivery methods so as to allow sending/receiving full res stems.
There are free online server facilities you can use for this like yousendit.com or dropbox.com (my personal favourite), they are free up to a point but also offer premium services for a decent price if you have larger amounts of data to shift around.
IMO, dropbox is about a trillion times better than .mac or mobile me or whatever they call it these days. It has an excellent feature where you can create a shared folder with someone else (or multiple people), which is perfect for collaboration from a distance. Everyone that is subscribed to that shared folder just sees it on their drive like it's a regular folder, but whenever anyone adds anything or removes anything from it, it updates automatically and in the background for all users. So you can be happily working away, all the while a new bunch of stems are being transferred to your computer without any complicated server skills required from anyone. I use this all the time when collaborating with a writing partner in LA, she is not especially tech savvy but it was no trouble at all to set this up with her.

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> I'm fairly new to Flash, but have gotten the hang of it
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>
> I'm trying to create audio buttons that will play
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> clicked on for a language learning website. I can create
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> audio when clicked, but as of now the only way I know
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> the audio directly to the swf file. The problem is this
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> space, and there will be about 20 copies of the button
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> different vocabulary word.
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