Compressor fails to encode .motn projects

It is vitally important that I can batch encode a few thousand .motn projects directly to mpeg2.
It has been awhile but I remember being able to go directly from motion 3 to compressor 3 for encoding/rendering.
Now for some reason any Motion project I try to encode in compressor, regardless of the target format fails and gives an error that reads : 3X REFERENCE WAS SOMEHOW RELEASED TOO MANY TIMES
The motion project previews in compressor with no problems, it only fails on the encode process.
does anyone have any idea what this is about and what I can do to get compressor to play nicely with motion again.
I tried opening my motion projects directly in quicktime and they played with out problems and I was able to export them to any of my quicktime supported codecs. Unfortunately mpeg2 can only be done via compressor.
I appreciate any help,
thanks,
ryan

You can try reinstalling both Compressor and Motion:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302845

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