Using Overwrite, snapped PC files from Vegas are 1 frame off in timeline!

Perhaps someone here can offer some help...
I was given a 30 minute piece of video that someone else created and started in Sony Vegas on PC. I have to finish the project in FCP. I personally did the final Audio soundtrack myself in Pro Tools. I am syncing that with this video, that had a "rough" early version of the same audio.
The person who gave me the files delivered them in AVI format. As many editing programs do, Vegas apparently split the 30 minutes of video/audio (around 6 gig of DV-NTSC 29.97 video) into multiple 1 gig pieces. So I have 6 (1gig) .avi clips that should snap back together frame accurate to get the 30 minutes back in the timeline in FCP.
So, I setup a standard DV-NTSC FCP project and I imported my audio first, so I could verify time cues, etc.
I import the AVI files, then Snap them in the timeline front to previous end, carefully, using Overwrite.
However, all of the video files are exactly 1 frame off at the end of each clip. As if either the Vegas splitting chopped off a frame at the end while splitting, or FCP is losing a frame as I import and then snap it in the time line. I can determine that it is exactly 1 frame, because of my "final", non-split audio track that is sync'd just underneath it. At the timeline area where each new clip gets snapped in, I can zoom way in and determine that the rough audio from the video track, is off by a frame with my final audio track.
It's not a drift problem, because if I line up each single clip on it's own with my audio, it stays perfectly in sync until the final frame. Then it's 1 frame short.
So by the time I snap in 6 clips, my video is exactly 6 frames off at the ending with my audio track (which I know is correct).
Sorry for being a bit lengthy, but it is hard to explain otherwise...
Is there something I am overlooking? Shouldn't FCP handle the AVI files okay? The person who gave the files to me from Vegas states that they should be frame accurate regardless of the split.
I am going to try them in another program to see what I discover, but I am stumped right now in Final Cut Pro? (That is assuming the Vegas splits were correct? Maybe that is the culprit?)
Thanks for any thoughts!
Wade

Thanks David...
I was able to finally conducted a test. I went to a friends studio that runs Premiere Pro 2.0. I checked the files there and the split AVI files do line up frame accurate perfectly and there were no frames cut off. (No surprise as it's PC files used in a PC format
Also, I first mentioned that I thought it was the end of the file that was missing a frame. It actually looks to be the opposite. It's at the front of the file that is off and missing 1 frame.
So, shouldn't I be able to use the AVI files in FCP frame accurate? Is there some dummy setting I am missing? Lastly, since AVI files are not the best format to use in FCP, can anyone recommend a conversion method for me to use for these files in FCP?
Thanks again!
Wade

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