I had this very same issue when I first switched to Premiere. First of all – well done! It’s a hard switch, but well worth the payoff in the end. What seemed to clear it up for me was changing the audio scratch disks and putting them in a separate folder to the video scratch disks. (but all inside your premiere folder, inside your project folder) So this is how my file structure goes (on mac):
Username
Film-*whatever the month is*
Project Name
Premiere
(Premiere Video Renders) (Premiere Audio Renders)
Hope this helps – it sure worked for me.
Angie Bee