FCE Exporting Nightmares...Motion artifact

I've done nearly a dozen projects now in FCE 4, but still can never get the same export format to work twice. My latest project: Filmed as always on a HDD camcorder 1920x1080, ingested and edited without a problem. Project looks great within Final Cut. (Duration about 4 minutes...There are a few clips filmed with a 640x480 underwater camera.)
When exporting using Export > QuickTime Movie... I get a 2GB file, but it contains bad side-to-side ghosting (double and triple images) during rapid motion. (NOT the small horizontal lines that I see on Google images of non-interlaced video.) I tried exporting it several different ways (using Export > Using QuickTime Conversion), all of which show this ghosting with rapid motion.
I finally took the first file into MPEG Streamclip. The same thing happened until I tried it is a .mp4 file. Now the resolution is slightly less, but the ghosting artifact is gone.
WHAT AM I DOING WRONG? Nearly every project I complete has some sort of artifact that I eventually get rid of after trying ten or eleven exports. The slight drop in resolution isn't nearly as appalling as the motion artifact. But I'd really like to know how I can export a project without motion artifact.

There are no changes in the motion tab.
This clip is probably the best example because my family is bouncing in a tube while being pulled by a boat.
Viewing in FCE4.0.1:
http://gallery.me.com/brutewolf#100011/3%20in%20a%20tube%20FCE&bgcolor=black
After exporting:
http://gallery.me.com/brutewolf#100011/3%20in%20a%20tub%20after%20export&bgcolor =black
The clip project properties include vid rate 29.97, frame size 1440 x 1080, upper field dominance, and ignore alpha.
It's difficult for me to tell if this is precisely the same frame (because of rapid motion, a transition, and no frame indicator in QuickTime) but it appears that the converted file is zoomed in with a slightly different aspect ratio. Is that a separate issue? The aspect ratio isn't terribly noticeable, but I think the shake artifact is.
This converted file was the one that was then converted in MPEG streamclip to a mp4 file (which eliminated the shake) and posted to YouTube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iguy39hTFps

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