Horizontal lines on motion clips

Hi everyone!
I'm new to FCE and I'm currently making a zombie related fake trailer, but I seem to have hit a snag.
With-in my trailer, I'm animating a number clips using the motion controls. These largely consist of photoshop'd layer images (i.e images with transparent backgrounds) set over full-frame jpegs but also some chrome keyed live action clips.
However, when I play these shots, the motion clips have horrible horizontal lines appear on them through-out it's motion. Initially I didn't see this because it only occurs when the canvas window is set to anything above 70%, but when I exported the shots to a QT movie, the horizontal lines remain. This is a problem because the main purpose of the trailer is for online use.
Does anyone know how to get rid of them and what's causing them? I'm working in DV-PAL 720 x 576 and I did save the photoshop files using the pixel aspect ratio D1/DV PAL (1.066).
Below is a link to a jpeg showing the horizontal lines (the left image) and what it's meant to look like (the right image).
Many thanks!
http://picasaweb.google.com/mattskilton/Artwork#5331540129419546658

I've since noticed that the lines/distortion only appear when the canvas is set to 100%. All other sizes, even 200%, it's fine. Sadly the lines/distortion are taken through to QT regardless of the size I set the movie to be. I added a bit of gaussian blur to the photoshop file and it improves it slightly, but it's still a problem.
It looks like the moving image has a ghost too, as well as the strong horizontal lines.
I'm just using my iMac monitor at the moment, and the footage is a mix of PAL DV from my digital 8 camera and jpegs.
Thanks for the suggestions so far

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