Strange outline on overlaid images after render, but not before.

Hey everyone! Thanks in advance!
I am editing a music video, and I had to mask the brand name of the keyboard for copyright reasons. Basically I made a rectangle that matched the texture of the keyboard and overlaid it, keeping it aligned using motion keyframes.
After completing the keyframes, I thumbed through each frame, and everything looked great, but I needed to render it. After rendering, it had this strange halo/border thing around it making it very obvious that I had tried to cover something up.
The image is a .tiff with transparency. The video is DVCPro HD 1080 30P (Shot interlaced, 3:2 dropdown, de-interlaced) I have Final Cut version 7.0.3. The sequence is set to render in high-precision YUV.
Here are some links to pre-render and post-render images. You can see part of the keyboard just sticking in from the right.
http://www.gabrielredding.com/prerender.jpg
http://www.gabrielredding.com/postrender.jpg
Thanks a bunch guys!

garbage matte a portion of the keyboard without the logo, move it into the right position and place it on top of the video, soften the edges with matte magic

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