Removing specific pops from phone recordings

Question

I'm running Audition 3.0 on an XP machine. My SoundBlaster card (X-Fi Xtreme Audio) has an audio input (DynaMetric) coming from the Aux plug on the business phone (older Avaya Partner).
It records really well, all things considered, with one exception: the phone system for some reason produces very loud "pops" periodically. I have no idea where they come from and have made a cursory effort to prevent it, but was told this isn't the best phone system in the world.
I'm a novice user, using Audition for promotional and fund-raising purposes in our small business. I'm barely able to navigate the tools. I did try a few of the built-in pop removers, but this particular type of pop doesn't seem to lend itself to that approach, at least not within the limits of anything I'm capable of figuring out.
I'm hoping an expert can provide me with a plug-in or sound sample to use with one of those tools, and instructions on how to apply it.
The good part is that these pops are quite consistent. Expect for one or two exceptions in the sample I'm providing here, they all seem to be very near to being identical to one another.
They all seem to be of the same length and, apparently, pretty much of the same volume. I'm wondering if those parameters alone might help isolate them with a routine I can run on the recording file.
(You'll notice that even though the volume of the person on the other end is considerable lower than mine, the volume of the pops seem to be consistent.)
The sample I'm providing doesn't make sense if you listen to the words because I selected a series of places where the pops exist.
I would estimate that in an hour-long recording there are at least a few hundred of them. They're very simple to manually delete by expanding the wave, but there are just too many for that to be practical.
Here's the sample you can work from. (I can provide a different set of selections if you prefer. I assume this will be fine.)
http://www.silver100.com/x/phonepops.wav
Thanks very much!

Answer 1

Oh, okay. I got it now. Thanks!
(Note that in Audition 3.0 I don't see anything called "Repair Transient". Maybe you have a different version of Audition. The general Help description under Click/Pop Eliminator just says it removes various transients.)
I've created the shortcut key to run your script. I see what it does, now -- as you said, it selects a short span of time following the cursor position and applies whatever it is that it does. I presume it's calling the Click/Pop Eliminator tool and applying the parameters in the script.
It seems to do a pretty good job. Once I manually position the cursor before a pop, I can hit the shortcut key and it will eliminate it while only partly reducing the sound that I do want to keep. Not bad at all. Probably not as perfect of a result as manually slicing out the pop surgically, but I doubt it will be noticeable at all in most if not all cases since this is just speech recorded over the phone anyway.
Man, I sure do wish there was a way to fully automate this. It's still going to require my manually selecting and removing hundreds of pops in longer recordings. That's an enormous cost in time spent!
Are we really, really sure there's no way to manually define a profile or sample that matches the characteristics of these pops and let it run automated? The Noise Reduction feature can capture a sample from a selection and run with that, but my pops are not long enough in duration for it to capture. I would like to think there's some way to approach this that will let it run nice and cleanly and fully automated by defining the pop characteristics in one of the tools. The reason I'm suspicious there may be a way is the totally consistent characteristics of these pops (not that I know much at all about what would be involved or how realistic is really is or is not).
Any other ideas?
Anyone else have any other ideas?
Thanks again!