Frame "wobbles" when zooming or panning on stills

I have an annoying problem with CS5.5. I have assembled a range of slides - all stills - and made a voice-over and added music. All good except that when I animate some of the slides with movement like a gentle zoom in or a pan when the film is rendered and exported the slides bearing these effects all have a "wobble". Its only a slight wobble (more like a very light bounce at a rate of about 5/sec) but easily percepetible and unnacceptable to my client. Please can anyone advise what is wrong here?

Issue Resolved!
90 minutes with Adobe support (Paul Ashish; you're a God) and we cracked it. Here are the lessons for all to share and take note:
1. My system had a wonky copy of quicktime so we refreshed the version that helped.
2. I was not opening the prog "as administrator" which I now will in all cases - u will not be able to do this unless you have a fresh quicktime anyway.
3. There is a magic bullet button on the export settings page called "Match settings" clicking this did a number of things given the nature of my original material which included a wide variety of source files all without attendant support info folders which the memory stick on the camera they were taken would have made available (they arrived with me via dropbox).
4. Choosing the Youtube HD preset as an export setting in h264 seemed like a good idea but it sent the file to a DIVX format which didnt help either. Clicking Match settings on export meant PP could "assume" some of the missing settings since the original support files and folders associated with the material werent there AND it sent the output to a Media Player format (mpeg) which showed no bounce.
5. While DVIX is a not too bad player Downloading VLC player helped too.
Watch it bounce-free at http://youtu.be/w2WuVyVBn6o
I am one happy boy and cant recommend Adobe Support enough.
Over and out.

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