Superwhite Edges

This is an issue we've noticed for some time, but have never received a response for the reason.
We notice this most with white-on-white composites. There is a superwhite (105-110 IRE) edge around the cropped or repositioned image despite the elements themselves being 100 IRE. This seems to happen regardless of codec, resolution, bit-depth (8- vs 10-bit), or "Process Maximum White as..." settings.
As an example, try this:
1.) create two White Color Solids in the timeline, one on top of the other.
2.) reposition the top Solid and render (it doesn't appear in an unrendered timeline)
3.) Look at the waveform monitor and notice the dot(s) sitting well above 100.
It is important to look at the waveform and not just rely on the canvas display as it seems the way FCP renders video to the canvas clips >100IRE levels (this is just a guess, though). It is clearly visible on broadcast (and consumer) monitors hooked up to our Kona 3 card.
Now, we know some work-arounds (3% feather, which isn't always best for obvious reasons; nesting and applying a custom broadcast safe filter, etc), but I'm really interested in what is causing this issue to begin with.
One thing we did notice is that by changing the video processing to RGB, FCP seems to clip values below 0 and above 100. However, this is a non-ideal situation as we want there to be as little conversion as possible.
System setup/specs for those interested (though it shows up on all our systems):
MacPro 2,1
2xQuad 3.0GHz
4GB RAM
ATI RadeonX1900
AJA Kona 3
FCP 6.0.5
(As an aside, this was even brought up last year by someone else, with no response: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7350402&#7350402 )

Agreed on FCPs poor keyframe/animation control. Most compositing and graphic work, we do in After Effects. But we do get these quick jobs where everything is done in FCP. And unfortunately, that's most often when we see these problems.
We'll do some tests to see how much the 'Fastest' setting will affect the in-timeline graphics.
Today I finally had the time to sit down and try to figure this out. It seems like it's a sub-pixel compositing issue. If I manage to get everything to whole pixel values in a square pixel comp, there is no superwhite line. At least now I know what's causing it, the question is, why?
I guess I can file a bug report with Apple, but I'm not sure how much attention they pay to those lately.

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