Spoken Podcast compression problem

For the podcast I host I've always edited the audio in Soundtrack Pro and then imported the AIFF audio file into iTunes to compress using the AAC Spoken Podcast preset. This worked great for years but ever since iTunes 9 was released the audio sounds garbled after compression. The other AAC presets still produce excellent sounding audio it's just the Spoken Podcast preset that seems to be broken. I submitted a bug report but wanted to know if anyone else has had this problem or if they know of a fix.

Thank you Arun,
There was no selective deletion on the cube.Roll up is included before the compress process in the chain.
Please find the info below from the table we can understand that DM is going fine.
The latest request in the cube is 1109217 and last compressed req is 1094040
Please find the table result for the cube
QUALOK ROLLUP_RSVD_DUAL ROLLUP COMPR_AGGR DMEXIST DMALL TMSTMP_ROLLUP
1.109.217 1.109.217 1.109.217 1.007.194 1.109.217 1.094.040 20.120.215
Could you please tell me from the above analysis what i can do ?
Thanks
Satya

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