Motion Project Output Corruption

Greetings all,
I have created a very simple motion menu in Motion comprised of the following layers from the bottom up
Background - Contains a black generated background
Layer 1 - Actor 1
Layer2 - Actor2
Layer3 - Actor3
Layer4 - Title
The actors drop in from the top in a cascading method from left to right and finally title. etc.
All that works well and I have the timing I desire.
Problems:
a) No matter what compressor method I choose for a still image output to use as a guide for my overlay, I get a totally unusable artifacted pixelated image.
b) when I try to export as a QT movie to use in DVDSP or export to compressor to use as my motion menu etc. I get the same unusable terrible result.
c) I see everything perfectly on the Apple Monitor during creation and playback, however the same playback video image is trashed on the NTSC monitor, looks just like descriptions above.
What in the world am I missing?
Thanks very much!
G5 Dual 2.7 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Thanks Patrick,
I dumped my plist while waiting for answer, and was coming back to post that I had cured the issue, but I will also follow your suggestion.
An addtional question if I may, I remember reading some place about the workflow for best results in using Motion for menus. re: the quality of the output.
While I have a useable file now, the quality seems a tad low, i.e. the images are fuzzy - can you you point me to the correct thread?
Thanks ever so much.
RM

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