Unexpected Audio Dropout After Importing MP3 Into FCE-HD

I've imported a song into a FCE-HD project, but after rendering it, I keep hearing tiny breaks in the music. I went back and played the original mp3 in iTunes... perfectly clean. I'm up against a hard deadline today. Any ideas?

Matthew
Mp3 is not the format FCE likes.
Use iTunes to convert the song to aiff format that has the same audio rate as the FCE sequence. That's either 48 or 32 kHz.
Al

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