Every 12th frame...

Okay, I have a wedding ceremony that is like 20 minutes long. After using an Mpeg-2 Highest Quality (60 minutes) encode I have the following problem. The whole video looks great up until about the 15:40 mark. At this point every 12th frame of my 23.98 progressive footage has a digitized mosaic-y look. THe weird thing is that eventually gets to the point where it is every frame artifacty. This all happens for about a minute then suddenly everything is back to normal. I tried re-encoding to no avail.
The original footage is fine, so its not the camera or tape.To make things more interesting, in my edit I am cutting between two different cameras and the effect happens on both cameras footage during this time 15:40 to 16:50 time period.
There are no effects or transitions used. Also it should be noted that my workflow has been perfect for my first 2 projects.
ADDITION - I tried just encoding the 15:40-16:60 segment as a separate clip in compressor and it works fine, so I really don't know what to do.

Thanks Brian.
I haven't used the Field Shifter Filter because Graeme suggests on another post that it's not required.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=479251&tstart=0
Quote: "Remove the Apple shift fields filter - let the plugin handle all the field stuff"
However, Ive just discovered the problem goes away completely if I set Field Dominance to Progressive (in Compressor).
Is there any harm in doing this?
My bulk audience will be watching on TV - and quite a few of them are likely to be people with older TVs and DVD players.
If it's OK to use Progressive, should I alter the FCP Sequence Settings at all? (NONE - for instance)
Andy

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