After Effects Opacity Issues?

Hello,
I am currently working on a project that requires a shape to fly onto the screen over some text. However, after I animated it, it is rather opaque and I don't know why... The original picture is NOT opaque, nor is the opacity set to anything less than 100% in After Effects. Yes, the picture is above the text in the timeline.
<--------------- Notice the shape over the text in the output frame.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Jack Reynolds
Impossibility Entertainment 2014

Alright, let's try this again.
The problem is discussed and pictures are included above.
I was just watching the video to see how it looked, and I had no clue what to do. I have never seen this before.
Running Adobe After Effects CS6, Version 11.0.4.2. Fully Updated. All the footage used is generated and is in the project as .psd (Photoshop CS6 Extended Version 13.0.1 x64) Files. Quicktime is version 7.7.5 (1680.95.13)
Running Windows 8.1. Hardware: CPU-- 3rd Gen Intel i3, 2 cores, 4 threads @2.50 GHz. 16 GB RAM Installed @1600 MHz GPU--Intel Integrated Graphics 4000, Revision 9. 2 Disk Drives: One internal, one external. External Connected via USB 2.0 Port. Nothing in this project is using that drive. Everything is running on the internal.
No 3rd Party I/O hardware. Only other running software is a USB-Encryption Key Monitor, required for my machine's operation. No 3rd Party plugins. OpenGL is off. I have issues during RAM Preview, and I have not tried exporting it. The Render Multiple Frames Multiprocessing is off. I am using Classic 3D renderer. No error messages.
And to reply to David's last post-- The text has no transparency, and it is UNDER the triangle.Blend mode on the text is set to NORMAL. The triangle is ADD. And the triangle has absolutely no transparency.
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