Fcpx Random black frames

I've been using FCP X to do simple projects until I can master it. We all know it's buggy even on the best macs, but today shocked me.
Random black frames littered through out the video. Not a lot, but even one black frame ruins the shot. I shoot interviews and b/roll of businesses for a company and then upload the footage, I like to do a little pre edit to organize and delete unnecessary footage in FCP X.
I've been liking the new tools, the new interface and the way it handles different formats. Yesterday it was freaking out a little on the output, but today I got random black frames on the HD footage and complete video static on a clip in my SD output. It crashed a lot yesterday, that I can understand (kinda), but actual glitches in the output? OMG, that is just wrong. It makes me wonder if any of my other projects I outputted have a similar problem but the client didn't tell me about it.
Wow, back to FCP 7 till they work this out.
It's like my IPhone, it's a fantastic device with all these features, but the phone part is worst then my last phone.
You can have revolutionary video tools in the software, but it had better output perfect video. That's it's main job.
Anybody else have problem with black frames?
RICK

Thanks for your reply, Szalam.
Yes, I am very familiar with the bug report process. I wanted to see if anyone else had the same issue hoping that I could find an immediate solution. As it stands, the temporary workaround is to render to something other than Cineform AVI.
Sorry, I am quite busy right now (large project with a short deadline) and don't have the time to do much test rendering. When I get a minute I will definitely do more tests with different codecs etc.
I would be happy to upload some P2 footage when time allows. Is there a way to upload directly to this site, or is there another preferred method? I haven't attempted uploading files to this forum before.
Thanks again for your help!

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