Text Overlay Speeding up Clip

I have Final Cut Pro 6.0.6
Out of nowhere, after one editing project (which was a hassle in HD, but worked begrudgingly) I started a new, standard project (non-HD). when I went to overlay some text, the clip below sped up. Just the video, the audio was fine. the clip didn't shorten, just sped up within itself and then dropped frames message box came up. I left the text on, thinking it was a playback issue. after it was exported (as both iphone.m4v file and a .mov file), the clip stayed sped up.
I even exported the project without text, and attempted to import it and then lay text over the final project. it sped up again! what is causing this??
I already dumped prefs, reset, etc. I ended up having to import the project into imovie and do the text in there--which worked fine. I don't want to do that every time, what is this text issue!?

I did a search all across the internet and all I kept coming up with was "how to speed up clips" or "how to put text on your project". nothing like this. the last thing I want to do is sign up for a forum and post things.
well, when I drag a clip into the timeline to edit, FCP automatically matches to the clips settings. or, that's what it's telling me it's doing. I've edited tons of m4v files over the past few months and never came across this issue before, why would it happen now to two separate projects?
from what I understand, my settings are on DV NTSC and the file I'm editing is a Mp4 file format, which I have done plenty of times before. this is--again--only when I overlay text above any part of the clip.

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