Jagged Overlays

I have created button overlays for my menu. They are basically underlines which appear under the button when it is selected. I created them in Motion and they look fine... No jaggies. I export them as psd's and open them in any appropraite program and they look fine... No jaggies. I pop them in my DVD menu in DVDSP and you guessed it... big time jaggies. It looks like the jaggedness is where the lins is crossing the fields. Has anyone ever encountered a problem like this or can anyone help me with a possible solution.
I've tried deinterlacing them before and after exporting them. I've tried making the lines thicker. I don't understand why this is happening.

I know the Studio is designed to work that way but in the past I've had a lot of problems through upgrades when using project files instead of stand alone files. Most of the work I do consists of projects that will be ongoing for several years so I need to be able to come back to this project in a year with possibly a newer version of the apps and everything work. This hasn't been the case for me n the past. Particularly with .motn files.
I can remember when we went from Motion 1 to Motion 2 and I had like 50 motion projects inserted for graphics that were all FUBAR'ed. I had to go back and maunally reconnect all of the assets in each project and resave. Every since then I use .mov. Just my personal experience.

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