Color Correction problems on external monitor

Ok.
So, I am using some video filters to enhance the look of my video project. I am very happy with the way everything looks on my computer monitor.
However, when I play the video through my camcorder to my monitor, the color is WAY off and everything is flickering.
I tried playing the video out through external monitor with the filters turned OFF in FCP and everything looks fine.
I have played the same video out through monitor with one of the filters turned OFF while the others are still ON and the image looks fine. Here is the list of filters in order from top to bottom:
RGB Balance
HSV Adjust
Vignette
It seems that the combination of these filters is causing a playback problem on my external monitor. This is an issue b/c I need to see how the color filters will look on my end project as it is played on a TV.
One other interesting wrinkle....the applied filters if left UN-RENDERED and in the green PREVIEW render state, will play through to the monitor fine.
I even tried to print the video to tape in an effort to then re-capture the video that would by my assumption be "off color" but this is what happened....
The video while being printed to tape looked awful on my camcorder monitor AND awful on my computer monitor as it was printing to tape. So, I then rewound the tape and attempted to RE-CAPTURE the video which I thought would now have the wrong colors. But, once the video was re-captured and I played it....it looked FINE on my computer monitor, but AWFUL on my camcorder monitor.
This was the same tape that I saw being recorded in the AWFUL color state yet, it was now playing back fine on my computer monitor.
What is going on???
One last test on my own tonight. I am going to burn a DVD with this video. I assume that the video on the DVD when played back through my TV will look AWFUL however, If I preview the video on my computer monitor through iDVD it will look fine.
Does anyone have any idea what may be going on here?
Thanks,
Pete

David,
I did a test. I burned a DVD of my video. And..the colors were off, the image was flickering...generally terrible.
But, then I paused the DVD and.....color was perfect!
Just as I wanted.
So, there is something going on with the interlaced video fields on TV monitors maybe???
I don't know.
But, the problem is definitely with the NTSC monitor side of things...but a problem generating from the use of thes filters in FCP.
Still not solved.

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