Outline text problems doing weird stuff to letters.

Motion 2.1.2
what would cause this on random text letters.
it has an outline on it and as soon as I take it off it goes away.
I have tried... repaired permissions, trashed prefs, changed fonts, switched from font Xplorer to font book, cleared font cache, did a little dance and its still not working.
file works fine on our 10.4.11 non intel machine but wont work on either of our 8 core 10.5.5 machines...

tried that and that didnt work either...
we noticed it because the motion files we take into final cut.
we saw the weird box and took it back into motion.
we then tried to recreate our steps without taking it into final cut and still it does the same thing.
I am just not sure what the deal is...

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