Nutty glitch in an empty comp

Hey guys,
I'm getting a weird glitch where a piece of artwork is appearing in a completely empty comp of a specific size, and only at quarter rez.  If i up the resoulution to half/full etc it dissappers.  It also dissapears if i drop in some artwork.
I rebooted and it disappeared for a while but then reappeared... any ideas what might cause that?

Purge the disk cache. Preferences > Media & Disk Cache, click the Empty Disk Cache button. (This is easier to do in the next version of After Effects with the new Edit > Purge > All Memory & Disk Cache command. Visit http://adobe.ly/XqOTlE for a full list of changes.)
Out of curiosity, what is the resolution that you're having a problem with? Was the troublesome image the same size or different? Is the image in this project, or is it a different project? What is the name of your comp and could it possibly be the same as when you last used this image? Same question, but apply it to the project name and save location.
This sounds like a bug with the caching subsystem; it appears to be hashing out the same as the comp you last used the image in. It's a bit weird, because an empty comp should never hash the same as any comp with an image in it.

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