Originally Posted by BlueMoon

hey man, that would have been the easy way out.

Here's how I finally fixed it. I realized that tracks 3 & 4 were imported at a different time than 1 & 2. digging into it, 3 & 4 were live and 1 & 2 were offline media. 2 seconds before throwing the box out of the window I reimported the offline media and WHAM. it worked.

the point of this story is...Avid sucks, all it is good for is job security for all the footage already started in Avid