Can't render out of Motion 5 - it's all corrupted!!

Hi all,
Any help greatly appreciated - it doesn't matter what I do, everything I render out of the new Motion is totally corrupted - sample frame below (all look a little like this):
Nasty!
Everything looks great up until render. Tried numerous compressor/size variations, always the same.
Motion 4 still renders out fine.
Running a Mac Pro with ATI Radeon HD 4870
Any suggestions?
Thanks!

Thanks Guys.
Don't think it's a project problem as this happens using templates, and stuff of my own creation. I've got a feeling it might be a hardware thing too.
I'm running two graphics cards:
ATI Radeon HD 4870 (DVI and Display Port monitoring)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 (No displays connected)
I'm additionally running a Blackmagic intensity pro card for monitoring (which isn't of course currently supported by Motion 5 / FCP X).
I came accross this article :
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3842
which although promising, didn't help me as I removed my secondary monitor connection and the same thing happend.
Very interestingly, as you sugguested, as a test I applied some effects on a timeline in FCP X, and the render becomes corrupt as the effects are applied:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6618904/Corrupttest.mp4

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