Syncing up unnamed audio files?

A friend is cutting a film 3,000 miles away. I'm trying to be helpful. She's just received a stack of video files, AVCHD I think, along with .wav audio files recorded simultaneously on a Zoom. Whoever shot the footage didn't think to number the Zoom files to match the video files. So my friend will have twenty video files with matching Zoom recorded audio files - but no clue as to which goes with which.
I'm wondering how the sync mechanism in FCP X might be employed to solve her problem? I've often linked a single known video file with its single known audio file - made a synced clip. Easy peasy. I'm wondering, does my friend have to highlight a video clip and then each of the audio clips in turn until she finds the two that will sync up properly? I'm also wondering if FCP X will artificially (inadvertently) sync whichever two (video & audio) you highlight even if they don't match -- making one messed up synced clip.
Has anyone come across this dilemma before - and if so, is there an easy solution?
All ears,
Ben

In the Inspector? If I highlight the audio or video clip and look at the Info window -- is the in and out time listed there the 'content created time stamp'? I know this sounds dumb, but I don't want to give someone under duress the wrong instruction. I see the Audio Sample Rate there, so she can solve that easily enough. If someone's goofed on location, and all her Zoom stuff is 44kHz - I would simply use Quicktime 7 to convert all the 44kHz to 48kHz, or MPEG Streamclip (which does batch conversions). I can't remember if one can do any kind of batch conversion with Quicktime 7. That should solve any syncing problems right?
B

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/// disclaimer, i AM the owner of Videotoolshed, and i WILL (at least try) to make money on it. ///
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