Strange jitter of objects in rendered MOV.

After many, many, many crashes in Motion, I finally got my project to render out using Compressor. The standard "Export" from Motion worked while my project was under 30 seconds, but now that I'm almost pushing 60 seconds it is crashing left and right. Extremely frustrating.
Anyway, I'd you guys to take a look at like the last 10 seconds of this clip. When the "postcards" come on and the globe is spinning in the back, everything just starts jittering. Nothing else in the video has the symptom, and it doesn't look like this in the Motion canvas. Any thoughts, cures, explanations?
http://www.jmvdigital.com/motion_vid.mov
Note: That is a 15mb file (564x720 @ 59fps). Sorry for the size and length, but I got one render in a day, I've run out of patience to try a smaller one. The sad thing is that the final project is due in 1280x720 uncompressed... I hope it will even make it out Motion.
Thanks,
-Justin

Ok, update....
Turns out that jitter on the globe is indeed happening in Motion (I just didn't notice it before). The clip is only affected when the postcard images come on screen. It shifts on the X-axis (appears to the same pixel shift amount also) only, and will do so in an in/out/in/out patter with each frame. The jitter occurs every other frame even when the postcards are stationary on the canvas. The jitter is also not apparent when I hide the postcards layer. So it is clearly caused by those images, and probably something to do with the 2k limit.
Any other words of help? I have the globe clip and postcards both in seperate containing layer. These two layers have the "fixed resolution" box checked. Though there are the 8 layers contained WITHIN the top postcard layer... those sublayers do not have "fixed res" on. Doing so completely screws them up. Can I not do the zoom/fade treatment?
I don't know much about field ordering, or why the globe clip would only jitter when the postcards are on screen.
-J

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