Exporting to Quicktime produces strange results

Greetings:
I have been working on a fairly large project in FCE for many months. I am finally ready to export to burn onto a DVD but am having some strange problems. Although everything looks fine within FCE, when exported to a Quicktime movie as either a self-contained movie or as a reference file, the movie is not plating properly. Specifically, there are problems with images that I have animated using keyframes and with some transitions between images using cross dissolve.
There are no problems with the video or sound, only when still images are involved in some fashion or another.
Does anyone have any experience with this issue? Does anyone have a suggestion for a fix?
Thanks in advance for any help...

A couple of different problems.
The first is as follows:
I have an image in one video track. Using keyframe animation the image slides across the screen, stops and then fills the screen The underlying videotrack is a movie interview that I conducted. In FCE, all looks as it should. Once exported as a Quicktime movie, the image is transparent, allowing the underlying clip to be seen and the image seems to be appearing in duplicate. One image overlying another with the images being of different sizes and not matching the keyframes I used.
The other problem relates to a photo montage that I did. I recreated the 'Ken Burns effect' using key frames and added cross dissolve transitions between photos. Again, in FCE all appears as it should but in Quicktime, some images are again duplicated and move in ways not defined by me, transitions flicker or flash and occasionally the images appear very dark.
Does this help you help me?

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