Strange Artifacts In Text

I've exported out a Self Contained movie file and the text in it looks fine. But after I compress the video down I'm getting these strange artifacts in the lettering. Check the images below. I messed around with the bitrate quite a bit and I'm still getting it. Help!
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...Picture2-6.png
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...Picture3-1.png

Okay, I've created the text in Photoshop CS2 against a plain black background in white using Arial at 48pt. I then delete my background so there is just the text and save it out as a png. Then I bring the png into Final Cut for laying over top of my footage.
My footage is HDV from a Sony HDR FX1 so it's sized at 1440x1080. I have been compressing using Visual Hub, at "go nuts" with a bitrate setting at 6000 and final size at 1280x720. I've also tried exporting using QT Pro with a photojpg codec set to Best.

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