Strange troubles exporting FCP movie

I'm trying to export an hour and 20 minute long film onto my desktop in order to burn it using idvd. All goes well except that there are one or two places in the finished export where PART of the sound simply disappears. This happens in the middle of a clip, rather than a whole clip disappearing, and it is one audio track - a voiceover for instance - that disappears, while the music behind it remains. The original sequence is fully intact, only the export carries the glitch. Very mysterious. I have somehow troubleshooted the problem on a few clips by changing the volume ever so slightly - I think this is what did it - but as soon as the issue is resolved in one clip, it arises in another. What the heck is going on? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I had a similar issue where my music track would disappear and only come back during spots in the show that contained video disolves!
The only explaination I could come up with was that I had not rendered the program before export. I trashed all renders for the project using Render Manager, Re-rendered the sequence did a mixdown and exported again... no problem.
EDIT
And although it is not "technically" necessary, I find I run into less problems if I do a SELF CONTAINED export.
rh

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