Bizarre Gaussian Blur Bug - FCP7

Hello everyone,
Have an interesting pickle. I'm working as media manager on a production involving multiple editors. When clients are ready to review, they post their ready sequences into a project and send them to me to encode and upload.
However, whenever one particular episode is sent to me, there seem to be gaussian blur filters applied to random clips. Tried to see some sort of pattern in where the blurs are automatically applied, but there's none that I can see.
Each of the affected clips are, allegedly, "clean" when sent to me, but when opened each of these random clips will have three identical gaussian blur filters on them, each blur level set to 2.
This also happens when I open the projects on other systems in the office.
We are all on Final Cut Pro 7.
I suspect poltergeists, but I figured I'd pick your brains and see if you all have any ideas.
Thanks!
Brian

I'm getting sequences in a Final Cut Pro project file. We used to rock XMLs, but we opted to just have the editors copy and paste "ready to cook" sequences into a project and then I snatch it from them. As for the clip names, they are well-named (essentially the film roll then clip number, e.g. NYC082510_001) so we don't have any redundancies as far as clip names go.
As far as if the editors like me... all signs point to yes. I don't think any of them have any sort of vendetta against me. Then again, sneaky clandestine gaussian blurs would be a pretty editor-like way of causing mischief and mayhem.
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Usually I have a document open with dozens or hundreds of layers. The effect that I am executing when this seems to happen is where I have a group of shapes or placed image smart object layer and I'm creating a shadow layer by making a blank layer below said group or image, making a selection from the above group or image, and then filling the selection in the blank layer with a color - which I then run the Gaussian blur filter on, and afterward warp transform to get my realistic looking shadow effect.
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You can see the initial freak out in this screen shot from when I just initially selected the Gaussian blur filter from the menu (but had not yet even clicked "OK"): http://cl.ly/3KTx . The strange thing is that I had just run this series of steps on the above layer which in the screen shot you'll see as "Layer 44", and all was well.
Here's a screen shot showing the file after I closed it out, restarted Photoshop, and opened the file back up: http://cl.ly/3K2C . In case you can't tell, data from several layers all over the file is missing and corrupted.
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