Green stripe appears on video after compressing

After running a Quicktime file through Compressor, I get a green stripe running horizontally across the center of the image. The stripe covers roughly a third of the screen vertically.
Some background:
The computer is a new 12 core, Mac Pro running Snow Leopard 10.6.4. After experiencing the problem I did a clean install of the OS, installed Final Cut Pro Studio 2, then installed all the updates and still got the green stripe. I have been using the same version of Final Cut on an iMac for two and a half years without this issue. The iMac is also running Snow Leopard 10.6.4.
The Quicktime file is 1920 x 1080, ProRes 422
The Compressor settings are as follows:
Name: MPEG-2 16:9 23.98 6.4/7.6 Best Resize
Description: 24fps
File Extension: m2v
Estimated file size: 2.55 GB/hour of source
Type: MPEG-2 video elementary stream
Usage:SD DVD
Video Encoder
Format: M2V
Width: 720
Height: 480
Pixel aspect ratio: NTSC CCIR 601/DV (16:9)
Crop: None
Padding: None
Frame rate: 23.976
Frame Controls On:
Retiming: (Fast) Nearest Frame
Resize Filter: Statistical Prediction
Deinterlace Filter: Fast (Line Averaging)
Adaptive Details: On
Antialias: 0
Detail Level: 0
Field Output: Same as Source
Start timecode from source
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Field dominance: Automatic:
Selected Progressive
Average data rate: 5.8 (Mbps)
2 Pass VBR enabled
Maximum data rate: 7.6 (Mbps)
High quality
Best motion estimation
Closed GOP Size: 12, Structure: IBBP
DVD Studio Pro meta-data enabled
The Hardware:
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro5,1
Processor Name: 6-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 12
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache (per processor): 12 MB
Memory: 6 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed: 6.4 GT/s
Boot ROM Version: MP51.007F.B01
SMC Version (system): 1.39f11
SMC Version (processor tray): 1.39f11
Serial Number (system): H004108YGWR
Serial Number (processor tray): J503704Z1BH8B
Hardware UUID: E18A8A7A-B795-5DD5-9E24-35AB602D760F
Any thoughts on this are appreciated.
Thanks
Larry

Myself as well. I briefly talked to Apple phone support, but they didn't acknowledge the disrepency and proceeded to have me re-install Compressor (even though I was using a clean install of both the OS and Final Cut Suite). Of course, there was no change. It does bother me in that this may be an issue that affects other functions I haven't yet uncovered. I expect see this problem escalate as time goes on.
One rather humorous anecdote: The support rep wanted to determine if I had the minimum hardware required to run Final Cut Suite. When I told him I had just purchased a 12 core Mac Pro, he still went through the minimum required hardware list. One would think an Apple rep would know this system would more than cover the minimum requirements without going through a component checklist.

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