Ripping in Apple lossless, random beeps in file created. genius bar no help

Just began downloading my CDs to an external firewire drive attached to my new Macbook w/ Leopard, using iTunes w/ Apple Lossless. This will be for my hi-fi stereo. I'm using the latest versions of all software.
After about a dozen CDs, I have done some listening. At the end of some tracks there is an electronic beep that lasts about one second, starts in right channel and moves to left channel.
Only some tracks have this beeping, but consistently occurs at end of tracks, from CDs released last year, five years ago and even ten years ago.
Tested these same CDs on my Thinkpad w/ Windows XP and iTunes, using apple lossless. NO BEEPS at the end of the same tracks that had beeps on the Mac.
Any idea how to get rid of this?

I have a MBPro and have been experiencing dropouts and blips when ripping with Apple lossless. Having dropouts does rather defeat the purpose.
I was ripping to an external USB drive. Based on this, I'll try to my very fast internal 7200rpm drive. Anyone else but us two experiencing this, and have any workarounds or feedback? It's VERY frustrating...

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