Merged Clips Audio Sample Rate Dominance?

Hey everyone,

something interesting happened to me while syncing video and audio files in Final Cut Pro 6.0.4. Just wanted to ask if there's any workaround for it:

I have an HDV source clip (video + two tracks of audio). One audio track contains timecode information sent to the HDV camera via a Lockit device. Sound was captured seperately using Ambience's 744T HD recorder.

I use Video Toolshed's FCPaux TC Reader to write the TC information from the audio track into FCP's AUX1 timecode track, then sync video and audio with the "Merge Clips" command via AUX timecode.

Everything's fine except for the fact that FCP creates a subclip with 16-bit audio (like the HDV source), not using the 24-bit audio sample from the 744T audio clips. Is there any way to work around this except dragging the video with AUX TC to the timeline, stripping it of its audio, dragging it back to the Browser, then syncing it?!

Thanks in advance,
Lasse