Strange image when inserting cross dissolve

Hello,
I am having an issue with the cross dissolve. Everytime I insert it, doesn't matter where, mid-way through the transition a frame shows up from an earlier (30 sec back) portion of footage. I tried trimming the clip to see if it would work and no luck. I'm running the latest update of FCP-HD on a Dual 2GHZ G5. Help would be greatly appreciated. I need to get rid of this phantom image. Thanks.

Hi Daniel,
This is not a solution but might help you get some work done.
You are not alone in experiencing this. In addition to what you describe, I've gotten the same effect a few times when I used a slug or color matte on a higher video track to create a transition.
In my case I found it was only happening when I was "pushing" the system – ie lots of sequences open, very large project, numerous nests, etc.
I quit and did a restart. Then I created a new project with "shrink" appended to the title. Then I opened the large project and dragged over a subset of what I needed to my shrink project. I closed the large project.
The problems disappeared. Sorry I don't have anything more definitive, and I hope that helps.
Tom

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