I also noticed during the dining scene with Stevens that the sound of the wooden spoon hitting the serving bowl is out-of-sync and drops out briefly when AE releases the spoon.

So, I have checked this place. Actually, the sound of the extended edition (from where I took the filling sounds) was just wrong at this location! There you have sounds of the spoon which are just not there and cannot be there.

The Italian mono track which I checked out also, had the proper ambient sounds of cockerel and chewing, but no spoon handling. So I suppose I will have used the Italian track after all for version 1.1! :)

As for the dropped sound bit at 2:32:50 - this has also occured on the re-rendered version from Vegas. So I am rendering it a different way now.