Footage & Menu dimensions don't match on Flash Export (Encore CS4)

Here's the basic layout of the project:
A timeline is first play, leads to a motion menu. That motion menu links to other motion menus with Transition clips set.
All footage and menus are NTSC 4:3 (720x480, 0.91 PAR). Going out to Flash in 640x480 Medium preset.
My problem is as follows:
All of my footage (Timelines and Transitions) is displayed at 640x480 (correct). But my motion menus display at 640x468 (so there is minor black letterboxing). The jump is quite noticeable in the transitions, since they are just an animation of the menu elements.
When I go out to DVD I have no problems, everything lines up nicely.
Any ideas as to why this might be happening?
I have a hunch it might be something like Encore is pre-rendering the motion menus at 648x480, which when downscaled to fit into the 640x480 flash window end up at 640x468. Sound plausible?

>I have a hunch it might be something like Encore is pre-rendering the motion menus at 648x480, which when downscaled to fit into the 640x480 flash window end up at 640x468. Sound plausible?
One way to test this (I think) would be to change the position of one of your menu layers, like a button object or a text object. That would force a re-render of the menu.
In order to avoid the long render times for a full project, do a Save As with your current project and give it a new name. Then delete all of the assets except maybe one timeline and one menu. Then force the menu re-render as above and see if export to Flash produces the same results.
I wish I had personal experience upon which to draw, but I don't export to Flash from Encore.

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