Uneven White Edging Phenomenon When Exporting

The past few sessions I've exported have caused my photos to display an uneven white boarder; this border begins in the top right of the photo and tapers to nothing at the top left. This phenomenon is repeated bottom left to top, right top to bottom, and bottom right to left.
I haven't been able to find any reason that this is happening or how I might fix it. Black and White photos do not exhibit this issue.
UPDATE:
Upon further inspection it seems that the white lines that taper off on all four sides are a result of custom color presets. Is there any option in lightroom that I could have messed with that would create this effect? It never happened in LR4 with the same presets.

Were these EPS files imported with the import option to "Render preview from postscript"? One way to possibly test for this would be to apply a drop shadow and see if it follows the content outline or just makes a big square drop shadow.
I am just curious if that has anything to do with it, not saying it actually does. It rather sounds like the old EPS preview bugaboo though, but it is disturbing that it is a randomized occurrence in CS3!
You could also try exporting the files as .inx and reimporting to see if that has any useful effect--preferably after setting your import options for EPS as mentioned above.
EDIT: There are also clipping options in that dialog which you could play with if this is simply a bitmap with a clipping path rather than vector art (I'm not completely clear on that from the description).
EDIT2: And Leopard really isn't a great idea in a production environment right now!

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