SDX 900, and AJ-SD93 capture sync issues

Hi,
We are working on a TV Series, and we have over 50 hours of footage, working on Dual 2.3 g5 Mac Tower, with FCP 5.1. Now I have done capture now on footage shot with a SDX 900 and 4 channels of audio captured through an edirol audio setup. The capture is through a firewire as well. We continually have audio drifts, and this isn't making any sense what-so-ever, why would this system have audio drifts when we capture using DV50 48k Anamorphic settings? Please help me. Thanks
Dan
PowerMac G5 2.7 Ghz, Mac OS X (10.4.6) AJA KONA & IO, FInal Cut Studio 5.1,

Hi,
We have the AJA IO and Kona 2 setup, we just haven't gotten the board for the AJ-SD93, so for the moment firewire is our option. The edirol Edir4 digital recorder is what we used for the Lava and Boom sound. We are coming in fine on the first clip, but as it goes along it becomes more and more out of sync. We didn't have this problem last year with the same camera setup. Could this be something to do with 5.1?
What is an alternative to capturing in smaller chunks?
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