Good Afternoon All!!

Got a problem here...I'm using Ulead DVD Movie Factory Deluxe Suite's Video Studio 7 (The one I got from Tiger Direct when I got my DVD burner) to edit Divx files. The video itself comes out great but only one problem...the audio format of the DiVx files I am clipping is:

MPEG Layer 3
192kb per second
44,100 Hz Stereo

When I finish clipping the video it becomes...

PCM
44,100 Khz 8 bit stereo

I would not mind except that there is some static in the trimmed version that I do not get in the original version. I did not see one but is there an option to leave the audio format as is since I am trimming video as opposed to converting them?

Thanks for your help.