Progressive FCP project comes back Interlaced from Color

Working with Sony XDCAM EX 1080 30p project. I sent it to COLOR and then rendered the clips individually out from color using 422 Color codec. Imported the clips back into FCP and they show me as interlaced. (upper field). I can't really tell (visually) if they are... don't have an HD monitor. I can send the timeline back to FCP and that sequence show as None under field dominance, but I still want to edit the corrected clips in another sequence.... so I would prefer to just used rendered (exported) files for editing and compositing in Motion.

Some background reading, maybe... http://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/142/858269
But in fact I get something similar even in HDCamSR 1080P2997sF.
There is no truly progressive 1080 codec in the Final Cut World, and so PsF is treated as interlaced.
720 doesn't exhibit this issue because it can exist as true progressive.
And then it gets really messy, because all Solid State monitors are progressive.
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