Problems with Motion 2 / FCP-Interaction

Hi!
Somehow Motion 2 and FCP 5.1 don't play too well together on my system. Here's the problem:
I am producing tutorial movies for a certain application. My workflow is as follows:
1. Record screen movies with SnapZ Pro. I use the Animation codec, resolution 1152x720.
2. I import the clips to FCP and render them. The clips rendered by FCP have a data rate of 4.2 MB/sec.
3. I want to add text overlays to some clips, so I send those clips over to Motion 2. Here is where the first problem occurs: Motion doesn't import properly from FCP. Let's say, the clip I send to Motion runs 50 seconds. Motion will play the clip for about 3-5 seconds and then freeze the video, whereas the audio continues playing. I resolve this problem by deleting the faulty video track that FCP has created in my Motion project and then importing the corresponding video file manually into Motion 2.
4. I do my Motion stuff and save the file.
5. Back in FCP, I have to render the clip again. Sometimes I have to reconnect the clip with the Motion file, sometimes not. Don't know why.
6. After rendering, the second problem occurs. The video clip is blurry. By right-clicking the clip I get to open the object settings I find that the data rate of the clip altered in Motion is only "500/s". Also, there doesn't seem to be codec anymore.
For illustration I habe posted two pictures. First, the original clip created with SnapZ and imported to FCP:
http://homepage.mac.com/cmeermann/filechute/Original%20Clip.jpg
Now, here's how the clip looks like after altering it in Motion and rerendering it. As you can see, it is quite blurry:
http://homepage.mac.com/cmeermann/filechute/Motion%20Clip.jpg
My client is waiting for results, so I'd really appreciate some quick answers.
Thanks in advance,
Christian Meermann
iMac Core Duo   Mac OS X (10.4)   1,5GB RAM
iMac Core Duo   Mac OS X (10.4)   1,5GB RAM

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