AE - Render differs from preview (get red outline and red layer)

Please excuse a newbie... I'm using AE and all looks good with the text I create.. I add a pre-set animation and then render to swf file. Sometimes all goes well, but most of the time I get a red hue over the graphics or the text gets an outline. See examples here...
This swf file rendered perfect.. all silver text and good reflection:
http://www.denmasterstudios.com/vision.html
This swf file (from the same AE document, I only changed the text) rendered with a red outline and red hue over the reflection:
http://www.denmasterstudios.com/hardware.html
It is kind of hard to explain, hence the examples. Thanks for taking the time to check it out. I'm spending too much time trying to diagnose.

Hello all and thanks for the tips. I really appreciate your help. After having it work sometimes and sometimes not, I definitely checked most everything you all mentioned. I really thought the answer shouuld have been in the areas you all pointed to... but I got lucky and found it somewhere else... maybe this was a newbie thing, but I'm willing to swallow my pride and cough it up...
My file was created from following Creative Cow's "reflection" tutorial step by step... in the tutorial, you "pre-compose" your text layer and create another layer below it. This other layer becomes your reflection.
Here's what was happening:
When I export to .swf, if I am viewing the pre-composed layers in the "comp" viewing area, I will get the red hue around stuff during the render, but not in the preview. If I switch from the pre-composed layers, back to the main layers, and view the main "comp" at the highest level and then render, I get a perfect render... make sense? perhaps it was human error... I just felt that the render would always look like what you are previewing. Make sure you render from the main layers and not while still looking at a pre-composed layer...
thanks again all!

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