Saving text tracks in timeline

When I export my sequences with text tracks, those tracks become incorporated into the QT file. When I open that file, I can no longer work with the text track.
How can I save the project that the text tracks will appear in the timeline as they were before I exported the sequence?
Thanks!

What am I'm missing here?<<</div>
The way video editing and output works. Say you have an FCP project with 2 tracks ... or 50 tracks ... it doesn't matter. When you export/encode the Timeline for DVD encoding, ALL tracks are merged as one.
how do all respective components of the project go in without it combining in the export?<<</div>
They DO get combined ... why would you think they didn't?
It's the same thing with music/audio. You can make a multi-track recording, with each instrument and vocal on it's own track. But when you mixdown for output in Stereo for CD delivery, all tracks get blended into two tracks (left + right).
If you've finished editing the piece, why do you need to go back and re-edit the text later? What is it you're actually trying to do?
-DH

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Thanks Kirk,
I know, and I saved and reloaded it every time into QT (7.1.6) and the target movie.
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When I export a text track (to text with descriptors) all the descriptors appear normally in the .txt, but the actual caption is somewhat inverted. For example ABCD appears BADC, even though the '{textbox ...}' descriptor on the same line is untouched.
When I go to import this .txt file, the caption that appears on the video is very jumbled. (Not anything close to BADC.) It resembles asian characters.
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