Cs4 Cs5.5 Mpeg2 problems?

Recently upgraded the machines from CS4 to CS5.5 and the render results of the MPEG2s we produce have dropped considerably.
There is a lot of degradation around type and it especially shows on blocks of static pieces of  solid colour.
Anyone know why this has happened and how to regain or improve on the level of quality we were getting with CS4 and unable to match with CS5.5?
The settings are idential in both instances, I run a load of tests trying multiple settings but the quality s just not there anymore.
MainConcept Mpeg
Quality; 5
Profile; Main
Level; High 1440
Bitrate Enc; CBR
Bitrate: 6
GOP M:1
GOP N;3
Macroblock: 10
VBV:112 x 2kb
Noise; Sensitive
Intra DC Precision: 9 bits
Multiplexer settings are:
Variable
Mux; 0kb
Packet sz: 2048
packs; 1
Vid Buffer: 0
Audio Buffer; 4
Computers used are Mac Pro's with 2x2.26 Ghz Quad core Xeon, 8gb 1066 DDr3 ram and Nvidia GeForce GT120 running OS X 10.6.8

There is no reason for much variation in encode times by setting the bitrate a little higher or lower.

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