Why does FCP set 30fps TC Rate for certain audio clips that lack TC stream?

Hello folks,
I'm cutting a DVCPRO HD 720p50 feature at 25fps on FCS2 w fcp 6.0.3. (Used a PAL Panasonic HVX200)
When I import certain of the audio files from the location sound recordist, FCP lists the file as having a TC Rate of 30fps -- and puts a greenbar over my audio track in the 25fps timeline. the audio folks were not TC locked to the camera, so I'm in the midst of doing a manual post-sync (yeah, yeah) of all of these files and Merging them into new Master Clips (1V+6A) for editing.
I already learned the great trick from this forum of importing the audio takes folders from each day and then disconnecting them to set them all as dual mono, then reimporting -- makes my Merge clips work the way I had hoped they would.
But this 30fps/25fps issue is really holding me up. This phenomena of tracks mysteriously being picked as having a TC Rate of 30 is rare, like 50 of the 400 audio files, but I can find no way within FCP to correct this setting nor any indication why these files were chosen.
I can't change the TC from 30-25 when a clip is online or offline -- I get the message "The media of one or more selected clips does not support the chosen timecode rate of 25, and are left untouched."
Any help will be wildly appreciated -- I am eager to complete this sync project and get cutting!
matt

I got help for this issue over at CreativeCow's FCP pages -- it turns out, all I had to do was open a new project using an easy setting and project setting for vanilla PAL 25 fps SD stuff. All of the audio was correctly brought in -- then I disconnected all of the clips, made them dual mono, reconnected them, and copied them over to my old gristly project folder.
Now I can marry these dual mono 25fps files to the video files without having FCP incorrectly compensate for "30fps" by speeding these clips up slightly, so things stay in sync.

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