Bottom edge of border of lower third changes colour on render

Hi,
Adobe Pr Pro CS3 system
I am not at my machine so please forgive if I haven't got the exact terminology correct, but the essence of my query does not change.
I am doing some "lower thirds" (banners) in the titler for a DVD of a music concert. Basically I'm creating a rectanglar box filled with near-opacity black and adding text on top of this. The black rectanglar box has its left and right edges outside the screen area so are not relevant. However, I have added a coloured edge to the top of bottom of the "banner" (I think this is an outer stroke with size 3.0) The thing is, it looks fine on screen, but when the video is rendered, the lower edge of the box has changed colour. It was originally a yellow/gold (as the top still is) but the bottom is now a pinkier shade.
Any thoughts. I will try to add a screen cap shortly in case it helps.
Thanks in advance.
Daniel

The footage with lower third was rendered to a new AVI within Premiere and imported. The colour change then appears on whatever system is used to view it (even the new render on the timeline shows it), on screen, preview monitor, subsequent DVD burned from Encore, etc.
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