We ingest from sxs cards, (Sony ex3, records 2 channels of audio), and we output to hd mov files and transfer over the net, but nevermind that, since I figured it out about three and a half minutes after posting the question 🙂
Sequence settings, audio tab, set dual mono instead of stereo, voila!
Thanks anyway, now I’m off to contemplate suicide, elections coming up this weekend 🙁