Compressor keeps failing - "Quicktime Error 0"

Hi all
Compressor 1.2.1 has decided to start playing up - whenever I submit a sequence from FCP HD 4.5, and use any of the mpeg2 presets (or indeed a custom preset) the Batch Monitor opens fine but the batch fails almost immediately, with the error message:
"QuickTime Error: 0"
Neither Compressor or Batch Monitor are crashing, the encodes are just failing. I've tried exporting from several different sequences in different projects, and they all fail.
One of the sequences is only 20 seconds long, just a clean clip captured from tape, no added effects, transitions or edits. So it's not that there's a tricky or dodgy bit of rendering or processing in the middle of the sequence that's making it stumble.
My sequence video setting is Uncompressed 8-bit 4:2:2 - could Compressor be having problems with uncompressed video? Seems unlikely...
Oddly, the mpeg-1 preset in Compressor seems to work fine, it only fails on the mpeg-2 presets.
Any ideas how to fix this?
Dual 2.5 GHz PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Im have the same problem as well. Did you guys ever figure out how to resolve the issue?
It seems like this error came up alot in previous versions of fcp, and it was tied to currupt/missing render files or missing mpeg2 components. I think the error is a bit different for fcpx. Ive tried everything I can think of as well.
Thanks,
Carlton
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