Stereo Audio tracks unlinking themselves ...

Hi All,
I'm still using FCP HD 4.5.
My stereo audio tracks are automatically unlinking from each other and becoming separate mono tracks. I'm not unlinking them, they just suddenly started doing this on their own. I'm having to go back, highlight the two mono tracks, and click option-L to get them back to a stereo pair.
In some of these cases i have unlinked the audio track from it's video track (APPLE-L), but not in all cases. Either way, i can't figure why this would make a stereo audio track unlink itself into two mono tracks.
Ideas? (Besides upgrading my version of FCP)
Paul

You do not say if this in your timeline. You probably have the link button depressed or undepressed.
Check that first.
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