Jumpy/repeated playback on rendered AVCHD footage

Hi folks!
I am experiencing multiple jumpy & sometimes repeated frames during playback on rendered AVCHD files on Premiere Pro CS4. It's really hard to catch since it happens on multiple files and the jumpyness can be like a rewind or it skip frames.
The 5 second file sample below skips a few frames, pay attention to frames 38 to 39(Man does the cross). It skips! Also notice the first few frames of the footage gets jumpy.
Playback inside Premiere is fine and smooth. The problem only shows on the rendered footage's playback.
File: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=30XONDN2
Software: Premiere Pro CS4 4.2.1
Output: H.264 or Quicktime MOV(Animation)
OS: Mac OS X 10.6.2
Camera: Panasonic HMC150 (AVCHD)
Settings: 720/24p
Any ideas on the solution?
Thanks!

ah right, you're on the Mac, I missed that in the first post, sorry.
try re-installing quicktime by going to the Apple site and downloading it. This page should open up with your detected OS:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
give that a try and see if you get any improvement.
Matthew

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