Trouble with quicktime conversion

I have been trying to export a fairly large (80 min) project to quicktime- not turning it into an .mov file, (I am running FInal Cut HD and when i choose export i press quicktime movie) when I export the project though there are chunks of sound that are periodically missing from the file... The sound on the original project is fine, I did this twice and audio was missing in the same spots.
Does anyone know what is going on?

Try doing an audio mixdown (you can look it up in the manual). This forces projects with many audio tracks to distill them down to just the two that will be output.
If that doesn't work, there is a condition where if the audio segment does not have a coreseponding video component covering it on the timeline - the audio drops out. (e.g. you fade to black for a couple of seconds with nothing in the video track before fading into the next video segment) The solution is to insert a black slug at those moments.
good luck.
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Dear Tom,
I appreciate you replying to my post, and am sorry for not getting back to you sooner, but i never received an email notification of a reply.
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