Re-recording and exporting to QT

When I re-record over a slide it is correctly recorded when I play the completed presentation in Keynote. However if I export it to QT, and when play the movie, it skips over the visual re-recorded slide, but the following slide has the recording for re-recorded slide plus the current slide. Is this a bug or has anyone experienced the same and found a solution?

I have FCE 3.5 HD. I bought Motion 2 separately when it was an option, Compressor 2 came with the Motion package. I can export to Compressor 2 as well as roundtrip with Motion from FCE export. You can still find Motion or Motion 2 on Ebay as a separate app. Someday, when sales slide, Apple may release separate app. packages again. Until then After Effects CS3, which is the industry work horse, has a pretty good render module. Oh and you can buy that separately too!
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