Flash frame problem fcpx.

When I drop clips into my timeline (W) or when I copy and paste a clip from the timeline or hold "option" and copy a clip and drag it elsewhere. I always get these flash frames. Sometimes they are so small I can't expand the timeline enough to delete them. Anyone having the same problem?

After I left the last message, things started getting even wierder. First, video scrubbing stopped working--nothing, wouldn't scrub at all. So I did a restart, and then video scrubbing started responding but would cause strobing flash frames as I was scrubbing. Much more than just a few frames between clips, but all throughout. At the same time my laptop fans were kicked into high, and the computer was getting very hot.
I looked at my activity monitor, but the cpu wasn't working more than maybe a fifth of capacity. I then checked my dock and noticed that I had Quicktime 7 Pro running. I had used it to trim a video and output an audio sample from it. Just an old workflow habit. I shut down Quicktime and the fans quieted down, and then the scrubbing/strobing stopped happening. It was scrubbing smoothly again.
I remembered I had previously duplicated the project I have been having the problems with, so I went back to the earlier copy. It still had the two story lines, with no black or flash frames yet. So I repeated the same process that had caused the flash frames to appear, dragging the clips from the secondary storyline down to the main storyline, and deleating the previous main storyline clips. I then dragged a buch of clips around, and added more with the 'e' command.
No flash frames or black frames. No fans running on high. No overheating.
I'm pretty sure that I started Quicktime 7 immediately after I duplicated the project, and it was still running when I made the changes to the duplicate that started exhibiting problems. And now with Quicktime off, I can't get it to repeat the flash-frame-effect. So it looks like, in my case at least, the cause of the problems was having FCPX and Quicktime 7 running at the same time.

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