Final Cut 5 stills loose keyframes.

I'm working on a project that consists of still images (jpg, tiff, pics, tga)in FCP 5.03. Every time I reopen the project or I have to re-render, key frames and motion effects tend to just disappear. I've tried throwing out the perfs and even moved to a different computer and it still happens. I did the same project a few months ago in FCP 4.5 and it worked fine. Anyone have any ideas?

We've been trying that, exporting all the individual files as a single quicktime movie and using that to edit, but our problem is that due to the nature of the production (An animated television series) all work in progress renders we get are JPEG.
This is because the software we're using to animate with (Celaction 2d) can only output un-compressed or JPEG Quicktime movies. To keep our hard disk space down (Even though we have plenty) it'll be great to fix the JPEG problem once and for all. Otherwise I guess it'll be re-rendering all the JPEG movies into another codec? Which is time consuming.
Anyone else had this problem? Does anyone know of any issues using .wav files?
Thanks again!
Ben
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