Image quality of imported PDF's

I am running Motion 2.1 on a Mac Pro w/ an ATI 1900 X card and 2 Gb of ram (I doubt any of this info--aside from the software version--will help, but I figure it can't hurt).
I am creating a project where a film reel runs across the screen. This is for an animated film that will be presented on a theatre-sized screen, so the quality of the image is critical.
The software I am using to create the character is called LineForm, and this is essentially a poor person's Illustrator. The software exports into a variety of formats, so I am exporting as PDF since, according to the following passage from page 455 of the Apple Pro Training Series Motion guide, resizing should not cause any image degredation:
"Motion will perform what's called a continuous rasterize of the artwork, preserving anti-aliased edges even at extreme zooms. To import vector artwork, it must be saved as a single-layer Adobe PDF document".
I have put my project files out on my host, so please check out the following:
http://home.earthlink.net/~placelogohere/film%20reel%201.pdf is the pdf I am trying to import into Motion. If you open this file in Preview, you'll see you can max out the zoom on it and still not see any pixelation, but Motion greatly reduces the quality of the imported image.
http://home.earthlink.net/~placelogohere/film%20reel%202.pdf is part of the character, also exported as a pdf, and I tried to import this into Motion and then reduce it. Needless to say, reducing the image size only resulted in even worse pixelation in Motion.
http://home.earthlink.net/~placelogohere/running%20reel%20test.psd is a single frame export from my Motion project, showing both of these PDF's after import. Open this image in Preview and, even on the first zoom, you'll see the pixelation I mentioned.
This Motion project is also out there as http://home.earthlink.net/~placelogohere/running%20reel%20test.motn . I welcome any advice and ask that this project, and the associated files previously listed, be opened and experimented with.
Mac Prod quad 2.6 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2 Gb RAM, ATI Radeon 1900 X
Mac Prod quad 2.6 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2 Gb RAM, ATI Radeon 1900 X

I have tried both importing the full-size PDF (see
"film reel 2.pdf" in the link in my first post) and
reducing it, and also reducing it first and then
importing it ("film reel 1.pdf"). The results are
the same either way.
I can see the pixelation almost immediately when
zooming in from 100%, so I'm probably about at 125%,
I'm guessing. At 200%, its incredibly evident.
anyone please feel free to correct me if i'm wrong - but any time you zoom in past 100% in your canvas you can expect to see a distorted image. this zoom doesn't affect your final output but it's essentially taking an image of a fixed resolution (in this case 720x480) and spreading it across a wider canvas.
i'd be interested to see what results you get if you create a new project using a higher resolution format (one of the DVCPRO HD ones?) and bring the footage into that.
make sure to disable fixed resolution for the individual media elements. i tried downloadaing your files and everything seemed to work pretty well for me. however - i'm using a computer with a small 15" 1440x900 display, so that might affect the perception. what kind of display are you using?
macbook pro Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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