Boris Title - Missing Text After Render

All apologies if this is an ages old bug that everyone worked to fix years ago. I was a daily editor from FCP 1.0 until 2004 or so when a project caused me to walk away from cuts and edits and crashes all together. Like a masochist, I've jumped back in, but without the prior security that came with daily readings of all the proper forums. I've tried to do my due diligence (5 hours here, 2-pop, Cow, etc) but to no avail. So....
FCP 4.5/OS X 10.4.9
Previews of text when using Boris Title Crawl to create a crawl look fine, but after rendering, the beginning and end of each text string, no matter how long, are missing.
So the above sentence would read:
ext when using Boris Title Crawl to create a crawl look fine, but after rendering, the beginning and end of each text string a
Scrolls are no problem. Only a problem with crawls.
Again. Sorry if this has already been settled and I'm just overlooking the thread.
Dual 1.42 GHz G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Welcome (back) to the forum.
Have you tried...
Deleting all renders in Render Manager, then re-rendering?
using the crawl in a different sequence or project?
trashing preferences?
I'm unable to duplicate the behavior. Seems to work fine here, with that sentence.
How are you previewing?
Do you have improperly set 'Margins' in the 'page' tab of Boris...or any crops set in 'Motion' tab of FCP?
Post back,
K
EDIT - BTW, FCP4.5 works best with OS 10.3.9/QT6.5.2

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