Compressor 4.0.3, Dark Video

Compressor 4.0.3, Dark Video; now any video I load into Compressor appears too dark in the Preview window and compresses too dark. QuickTime, FCPX, Motion, (and Avid) all play these files fine, but in Compressor, too dark.
Not a simple 1.8 vs 2.2 Gamma issue. All codecs and color profiles are dark, tested on 2 MacPros w/different monitors. Videos that I compressed a week and a half ago (PR422 files to h264) were fine, but now those same source videos (PR422) are dark in Compressor (only). Again, ANY video that I load into Compressor is extremely dark. I've tested this on two different Macs. I can't be the only one experiencing this... Help?

Using Compressor 4.0.3, I submitteda job from a ProRes Quicktime file. I have added a Timecode filter and Text Overlay filter (which you can see) and this is a screenshot of the Preview window.
After the h.264 compression, I get this result in Quicktime:
This shot is a little underexposed anyway, but you can see that the Preview image is noticeably darker than the resulting Quicktime image.
BTW, in Quicktime 7 I have the Preference "Enable Final Cut Studio Compatibilty" checked. If I uncheck it, the resulting image becomes even lighter - as seen here:
Finally, when viewing in Quicktime Player, it appears similar to the non-FCP-Compatibility enabled version of QT7 - seen here:

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