Renders Gone Wild!

Okay, this CAN"T be right.
But more probably, it's my understanding that's out of whack -- so am hoping to be set straight.
Does exporting a self-contained .mov QuickTime movie from a Final Cut Timeline, using the Current Settings default, require re-rendering of all filters and effects?
I had always thought that it didn't -- that if everything in the Timeline was already fully and completely rendered, then the export should take no longer than if I were exporting the exact same Timeline but with no effects or filters applied.
Nevertheless...
I have two versions of the same 52-minute sequence. Version A has no filters applied (except for some basic Color Correcting). Version B is the exact same edit, but includes a few filters on various clips -- some of which required quite long renders. But the renders were done; the sequence was saved; everything plays back fine, and there are NO "please-render-me" colors in the Timeline whatsoever. (And I've pressed Opt-R several times just to be sure.)
I can export a self-contained .mov of Version A in less than real time (takes about 35 minutes).
If I try the same export with FULLY RENDERED Version B, the "Writing Audio and Video..." window gives me an estimate of 7 Hours by the time it gets to 3%. And the estimate seems to keep growing while the progress seems to keep slowing! (It just increased to 8 hours as I type this -- but it's still saying only 3% done).
And what's really baffling me is I get the exact same thing even if I configure the export to be just a reference movie. Usually that makes the export much faster; in this case, I just get the same staggeringly huge time estimates -- it literally just changed to 9 hours this very second, but still at 3%.
These time estimates total much longer than the original, already absurdly-long renders took. So clearly something's gone crazy here. But WHY would a completely rendered, standard def, 29.97 NTSC Easy Setup sequence behave this way?
(It literally just changed to 10 hours! I'm not making this up -- and still at "3%". I've never seen anything like this before. Oh, it finally jumped to 4%. And BTW, all this is happening after I quit and relaunched FCP.)
Any trouble shooting insights on this one would be hugely appreciated!
John B.
Toronto
(FYI -- just before I hit "Post Message" -- it's now at 5% with an estimate of 9 hours, after briefly climbing to 11 hours while I proofread this post.)

Thanks David --
I'll check that point (along with Andy's suggestions) as soon as I'm back in my edit office -- which might not be for another day or so.
Meantime though:
1) As to David's point, "in theory", would that issue not have been rendered moot (sorry -- couldn't resist) by my having pressed and re-pressed Opt-R? Or is Opt-R not quite the "render everything whether it needs it or not and don't give me any guff" command I thought it was?
2) Is my original working assumption actually true -- that a Timeline in which everything has been well and truly rendered, should "in theory" export just as fast as the same Timeline sans any render-worthy filters or effects?
(I'm either going to understand this, or die trying.)

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