Incompatible Graphics card

Good afternoon all. I work for a local school district. It is the time of year to reimage all of our machines. I was told when making an image use your newest, fastest Mac (eMac in this case) to build an image on. I start out my image process with running the system restore disk from scratch. When I run iMovie it comes up with this message. "Your commputer contains a graphics card which may not support iMovie. iMove requires a Quartz Extreme Compatible Graphics card." I looked under the system profiler and it seems fine. Any thoughts?
XServe,eMac,iMac, iBook Mac OS X (10.4.10)

I just read your post about "Playback is jerking". I think it has to do with one of the software updates to iMovie. We were running 10.4.5 all last year andd iMove worked fiine. Ever since I went to 10.4.9 we started getting that error. When I go to system profiler, my graphics card says that quartz extreme is enabled. The problem for me now is I'm starting to re-image around 500 eMacs. I can't go around and replace video cards.

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Hi, finally I've executed:
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Hi,
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