Strange flicker in FLV's exported thru compressor

I am using the flv export component and exporting .FLV's thru the share method, sent to compressor. This process has worked fine before, as early as yesterday but now I am getting a significant flicker thru the entire playback of the movies? I have a screen recording of the playback?
Also I am using the same export settings that I have used in the past both pre and post FCP studio upgrade.
You can see the video here:
http://www.vimeo.com/6386852
password is flash.

I think i figured out the problem, maybe. And i will need your help confirming this, but I believe if the Display goes to sleep or maybe even to screensaver mode that is when i get this error as I have been able to successfully export FLV's with out the flicker problem. I noticed this last night when I knew I had a setting that worked, rendered a batch, then got some quicktime error-9459, which i hunted down and people say it is related to encode png's in quicktime through a batch and that the display went to sleep caused the problem. Of course the solution isn't that great as I am sure most of you batch at the end of the day to come back and see your well encoded flash movies might damage your screen. Hopefully something is urbane can be corrected in a pro app or snow leopard update.

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