[Matt Surf] "It had automatically overlaid my bed-track over the timeline footage, really not sure why or how, so I moved the audio down to another 'track' and my clip is now playing as before"
Just curious: How did you start this project? That is, did you lay the audio in first or the picture?
If you haven't seen it already, I recommend the Jim Giberti technique
http://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/29301