Render or export substitutes random video for series of freeze frames

I've got a sequence that seems to act ok until I render or export to QT, at which point random motion video is substituted for the freeze frames I edited together to create a sort of stop motion animation. I tried trashing the 3x preferences I know, tried a new sequence, tried a new project, tried digitizing the material again (originally brought in as HDV, but I brought it in as regular old DV after I thought that might be the issue.)
If I keep the series of motion fx simply nested, it acts ok. If I attempt to put a widescreen mask on it, it looks ok until I render. I tried a workaround of exporting the un-masked sequence out to QT to try and bring that back in and mask it, but the QT also fills in with the random motion video bits.
Any ideas? I'd happily trash prefs, etc. again if someone's had a similar prob.

FYI - I went through and recreated each freeze frame and it's working now. No idea why it was doing that, but some of the freeze frames were made from setting speed to 0%, others from Modify-Make Freeze Frame, so maybe that had something to do with it. It didn't happen on every freeze frame, but the problems didn't correspond to how the freeze frames were made either, so no clear answer. On second round, I did every single one with the Modify-Make Freeze Frame command, and now it's rendering ok. Fingers crossed.

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