Video distortion on new 640x480 videos?

Has anyone had any distrotion with videos bought from iTunes after sept 12th's announcement? I bought one of Panic at the Disco's videos, and it seems to have this type of distortion all through out the video. I was able to see this in the preview, but I thought there mightve been something wrong with the preview clip, and not the actual video. Take a look at the screen shots below.
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Is there any way I might get a refund, or get apple to let me download the video again without this distrotion?
Compaq Windows XP

Last night, I decided to go back and repurchase a handful of my favorite Music Videos to get the higher-quality 640x480 resolution. What I discovered is disturbing to say the least - while all videos are now 640x480 (and much larger size) many, if not most of the music videos I downloaded were not re-encoded from the original source, so the quality is no better!
Here's just a sampling of what I found:
- Anastacia: Left Outside Alone 17MB (320x240 purchased Feb 2006); now: 45.7MB (640x480)
- Anastacia: One Day in Your Life 17.2MB (320x240 purchased Feb 2006); now: 38.8MB (640x480)
- Anastacia: You'll Never Be Alone 22.2MB (320x240 purchased Feb 2006); now: 46.4MB (640x480)
All three of these original music videos were encoded with a low sound level. The new videos are significantly better quality and the sound problems have been corrected. Clearly they were re-encoded from the high-resolution source. This is what I expect, especially if I am re-purchasing content. Of interest, two of the three videos have different poster frames, and one has a different copyright date.
- Madonna: Sorry 24.9MB (320x240 purchased April 2006); now: 55MB (640x480)
This one is particularly troubling, because a side-by-side playback comparison the new video is worse quality, showing significant artifacts on some scenes (especially around her eyes). Clearly this was just a bad up-sample conversion of the 320x240 material, resulting in worse quality than the up-sample on playback of the original, smaller file.
- Blue: Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word 18.9MB (320x240 purchased October 2005); now: 40.6MB (640x480)
A side-by-side playback shows that this was a bad up-sample conversion of the 320x240 material, and the new larger file is slightly worse quality with "stair-stepping" effects on diagonals.
In summary, while it appears that some content has been properly re-encoded from the high-resolution source material, much (if not most?) of the content is a bad upsample. Why Apple didn't just leave this material in the original, smaller file is beyond me. It would have made it easer to determine what's worth re-purchasing!
For now, unless there is an obvious indication (the new poster frames for example) I would avoid re-purchasing video content from the iTunes store.
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