ME messes up music edits

Had this issue running ME 2020 as well as ME 2022 (22.6.1 build 2) off of a shared server environment on a Mac (os 10.15.7).

When sending an output to ME from PP, it will OCCASIONALLY mess up the music edit, especially if there's a cross dissolve involved.

Edits that sound perfectly smooth on Premiere or when output directly from Premiere sound fine, but if I send to ME, the incoming music starts at the wrong timecode and sounds completely off.

Music is generally mp3 and most often invovles a crossfade at the edit point.

The fact that it's unpredictable makes it annoying - it could work 10 times in a row and then on the 11th, the music edit is wrong.

***IN EXAMPLES BELOW, listen to crossfade around :29 - this is not even a music edit - just added a cut to change audio levels and added a crossfade betweeen softer and louder sections to simulate a fadeup. Works perfectly in Premiere version, not in Media Encoder version***