Why would dragging certain audio clips (or cutting said clips) cause program to crash?

Amateur Doug here!!!
In CS 5.5, when I highlight and drag some audio clips, the program freezes and won't shut down unless I power off. Ditto when I cut the clips to paste elsewhere.
I rebooted, same result.
I made a duplicate sequence same result.
I tried to cut the clips, same result.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated, because each experiment requires waiting for computer to reboot so it might be days before I find a workaround...

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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