Never let it be said that Wayne Carey is not a hero.
We don’t have the camera this project was shot on; and in fact the offline edit was done on an avid system. That’s when the project made its way to us and we Automatic Ducked it into FCP.
After reading your post, I went ahead and did all of the resets mentioned above, but created a new preset that was NDF. It worked, and now we’re off to the races.
Thanks for your help!