Trouble with DV Type 2 AVI audio in Premiere Elements 11

Please see the two screen captures below. G-Spot says my clip is DV Type 2 AVI which Premiere Elements 11 supposedly handles well. G-Spot says both the appropriate audio and video codecs are available on my Windows 7 x64 PC. Main Concept DV codec is installed. The camera was a Sony Handycam vintage 2000 and the clip captured by Firewire.
When I load the clip into Elements 11, the audio is compressed in length relative to the video. I get about 11 seconds of high pitched warbling and then no sound for the balance of my 67 second clip. You can see the audio profile flatten after 11 seconds in the Timeline view. I do notice that the audio preset for Elements is 48000 sample rate, and my clip is at 44100. If this is an issue I do not know how to fix it in Elements.
The clip plays fine, audio and video properly synced, in Windows Media Player and AVS Video Creator.
I am able to use AVS Video Creator to strip the audio from the clip, output it as a .wav file, and use it to replace the audio track in Elements. However, I have hundreds of clips to edit; this method will cause substantial brain damage.
Is there something I can do to get Premiere Elements 11 to process the audio properly?

Harmon,
Great news!
Not sure why that other app. would Encode the Audio to MP3, as that is non-standard (though MP3 is a fairly common format/CODEC - just not in a DV-AVI).
Sorry to hear that you have that extra step, with those particular DV-AVI's, but at least you do have a workaround for them.
Not sure if you will be outputting to DV-AVI, but if you do, the Audio choice would be that of the DV-AVI files that do work - PCM/WAV @ 48KHz 16-bit. That will create files, that are about as "plain vanilla," as it gets with PrE.
Good luck and happy editing,
Hunt

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1280
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960
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1411
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2
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PCM Audio
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