Photoshop fonts ugly in FCP

I know the answer to this has to have been posted about a hundred times, but I can't find it after searching forever. I've made a slate in PS CS, just a blue background with a person's headshot and 4 lines of text (name, email, phone & website). When I created the slide, I used the preset NTSC DV 720x480. After creating it, the fonts look fine in PS. I save it out (tried as a .tif, a .jpg and a .psd) and imported it into FCP (Version 5.0.4). When I drag the slide into the timeline, the fonts are all jagged and ugly. When I drag the slide into the Viewer window, it looks perfect. (?) I must not be saving it out of PS correctly. What settings do I need to use?
Quicksilver G4 Dual 800 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Are you seeing this AFTER you render the PS file in the Timeline while viewing on an external TV monitor? FCP's Canvas window only shows a proxy output to save system resources - don't judge quality with that alone.
-DH

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