HDV Export Distortion

When I export an HDV sequence, the resulting quicktime file plays well except for a couple places where I get major distortion in one frame. It seems like this occurs at places in the video where there is a lot of moving images and brighter colors. If I play over the spot enough time it eventually goes away (until I close and reopen the file). The problem is that this distortion does not go away when I burn to DVD. Any thoughts on how I might fix this?
Here is a screenshot I was able to luckily capture right on one of the defective frame as the video was playing:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27106722@N00/2514092296/
Jared

CalDigit FireWire VR with plenty of free space. I'm going to try to export to my internal and see what happens. Thanks for the idea.
O wait, do you think its more of an issue concerning the source of the captured video, rather than the destination of the exported video? Because I can export to my internal but if the issue is the captured video on my external then that doesnt do me any good. Thoughts?
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