Motion project with inverted dominance

Hi all,
I'm working in PAL DV, and I have a credit roller saved as a Motion project, to be added to my FCP sequence.
It needs to be field-based, but I notice when I import the project the fields are in the wrong order (inverted dominance)
I've checked my FCP seq settings (standard DV PAL preset, with lower first)
and my Motion project settings (standard DV PAL preset, with lower first)
I can fix it with the "shift fields" filter or by changing the Motion project settings to Upper first, but why do I need to do this ????
Can anyone else duplicate this problem, or is my system in trouble?
cheers
Jamie
G5 dual 2.5Ghz 2Gb RAM   Mac OS X (10.4.4)   FCP 5.0.4

Hi David,
Thanks for your reply.
I created test projects for FCP and Motion, and (as per my orig. post) I still have to change the Motion project to Upper to make it work correctly in FCP
You said there was a bug in Motion1 where the field setting was reversed?
I would say that is what I am experiencing in Motion2...
Jamie
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