CS4 Motion Blur---Something is wrong

I tried to rerender a CS3 project today in CS4 and found that the sequence (mostly moving type) no longer rendered correctly---some of the type was strangely shaky and too blurry (even while not moving) and other layers had no blur.
Opened the same project in CS3 and rendered the SAME sequence without these issues.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Lance Moody

Hi again and thanks,
The comp here does not contain nested comps--just text layers (which are what you see in the example). When you mention the resolution drop down, are you referring to the preview window resolution? This shouldn't affect renders.
Some are 3D.
Also I am using best settings for render.
To be clear there are two problems I see after render:
1. The weird blurry low-rez text on some layers.
2. The loss of motion blur on others (even though MB is checked on for layer and comp).
Additionally after opening other comps, I notice that certain layers are no longer positioned correctly in 3D space.
This is distressing because sure as hell in a year or two someone will want to revise these spots and there are so many things wrong with them that this would not be trivial. I suppose I can keep CS3 on my machine--god knows unpaid updates for CS products are hard to come by. This is FOR SURE a bug.
lance

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