Speeding up clips: fine in FCP, wrong in export

Hey all, I have a problem with FCP HD. I captured some shots at 720 24p DVCPRO HD off the Panasonic HDV. The shots are about 12 minutes long without an edit. Well, an actor stalled on a line so I made a few edits and sped up parts of the shot to a modest 125% or so. I didn't want the speed up to be very noticeable.
I managed to shave off 3 seconds or so, which was a good thing. It looks fine in FCP 5. However, when I export to either uncompressed footage or H.264 the speed ups are just jitters. Nothing gets out of sync, the footage just jitters in a strange way. I can't figure out why! It totally seems like a bug. Any help would be appreciated. I would hate to compromise the integrity of the movie just becuase of some software bug.
Thanks,
Schmüdde
www.fermatasonata.com
www.iamconcrete.com <--- film site.

Just in case anybody is watching this thread, I found a solution... but not an ideal one.
Maxplanar's suggestion actually ended up not working. I still got the studdering. I then deleted all the render files... and tried to make sure there wasn't anything cached anywhere that the software might be calling on that made the clip speed incorrect. Still nothing worked.
The solution? Ugly.
I changed the clips that were supposed to be running at 100% to 101%. Works without studdering.
what?
Wish I knew what the problem was... but at least I have a solution.
So the time line might look something like this:
|------|---|---|---|---|---|--------|
100% 120 101 130 101 123 100%
Where the clips that are not == 100 or 101% are the clips that I just wanted to speed up a bit. The ones that are at 101% I had to do just so the software would export the timeline correctly.
Schmüdde

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