Themed Transitions not rendering in export to Quicktime

I just created my first imovie 09 project. I was using the Bulletin board theme and the transitions work fine with viewing in iMovie. However, when I *export out of imovie to quicktime or itunes not all the transitions render.* Especially the bulletin board transition. There are some other "standard" transitions that are not rendering either.
I am wondering if this is a bug or if maybe it is the settings like Frame per second and encoding that is some how cutting these transitions out. Since most of the transitions do render out to quicktime, I am going to guess this is a bug.
Anybody have a clue?

The file information shows:
Apple MPEG 4 Decompressor, 960 x 540, millions 16bit, 29.97 fps
I just watched the rendered quicktime again and noticed that some of the Bulletin board transitions did render later in the movie but at least one transition is not rendering. It is very strange and bit frustrating.
I am not sure what it could be since it shows in the imovie full screen preview.

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