Motion sequence - when rendered in FCP goes blurry.example picture in post

Im having a strange problem.
Im creating a 20 sec intro graphic sequence in Motion in the PAL format to go into my FCP sequence. When I export and bring into FCP - the video as expected is unrendered and the picture looks sharp-like it did in Motion. However - when I render - it becomes a little blurry (nice technical term...)...
Ive tried using all 3 field dominance settings on Export from Motion - no difference...
When I watch the Intro graphic .mov in the viewer outside the sequence - it looks good quality as it did...so how come when rendering it is loosing so much?
(size increased for emphasis) Left is Outside of sequence - Right is Rendered in Sequence
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/7447/picture2yw.png
Any ideas? Thanks in advance
Message was edited by: SWAN909808

Motion
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/9135/picture4x.png
FCP:
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/572/picture5fe.png
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/6167/picture6xq.png
hopefully that is visible...

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