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Using "Mix and Render" (Tracks menu) to mix down tracks into a single track, and thereby reducing the number of tracks may help a lot. Before you try that you may want to Export back-up copies of the individual tracks (Select the track so that it is highlighted, then use "File > Expor...

First check that you followed the instructions as described here exactly, and if there is still a problem try the troubleshooting tips: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ: ... g-Ins#lame

How did you install it? Where did you get Audacity from?

As it says on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gain) gain is a measure of the ability of a circuit (often an amplifier) to increase the power or amplitude of a signal from the input to the output. It is usually defined as the mean ratio of the signal output of a system to the signal input of ...

No, just set up the latency correction for recording (as described in the link).
Don't worry about latency with generated sounds, there isn't any and latency correction is not applied.

Latency compensation is only applied to recorded tracks. It does not need to be applied to generated tracks because there is no latency to be compensated for.
See here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/latency_test.html

If our bit depth is 16, we have 65,536 possible amplitude levels of the sound. However, since we imported the file as 2 channel stereo, this number is halved: No it is not halved. If the bit depth is 16 then there are 65,536 possible amplitude levels for each and every sample. 16 bit audio usually ...

That's pretty close, except that "16 bit PCM" means 16 bits per channel. If there are two channels (stereo) then 2 bytes (16 bits) are sent for one sample in one channel, then 16 bits are sent for one sample in the other channel, then on to the next sample in the first channel, and so on.

Check the plugs and leads - the left channel is so low it may be due to a faulty lead or a faulty connector.

I'm wondering why you want to play back through your computer speakers - I'd have expected your hi-fi speakers would be a lot better than computer speakers.