Video Shifted in Canvas

Hi folks
I'm doing some consultancy / training with a group using FCE 3.5.1 and we're experiencing a glitch on transitions. If i drop a cross dissolve over an edit, the output on the canvas shows the video as being shifted 1/8 to the left so you can see the left hand side of the frame over on the right with a green line which represents the true edge of the video. I've tried rendering but FCE is outputting the glitch anyway. I'm doing the edit on a Intel iMac with 10.4.10 all updates applied.
My 1st course is usually to delete and reinstall QT, but as these aren't my machines i'm holding off.
Any similar problems / fixes encountered here?
In the old days i'd have tweaked the horizontal adjust and then smacked the the top of the TV real hard.
A further note. Prior to my being called. Some of the group, finding FCE quite difficult had started their edits in iMovie 7. As the deadline is pretty tight and some edits were near completion, i exported them as QT DVPal 48 video and imported this into FCE.
Might this be an issue?

The problem is SOLVED!
Like a few other posters the problem i had was with the video format. The group had started with .DV files they'd extracted from iMovie. I Converted the files (via Mpeg Streamclip) into Native PAL files, set up the new FCE project using the native DV PAL settings, Saved it. And then imported converted video files.
Sequence Settings as they should be.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2165/1799338688_ae080effe2.jpg?v=0
Bearing in mind my initial reason for running the video though Streamclip was because nothing would render. The converted video files played back beautifully so i thought i didn't have a problem. However...
The offending Video Settings
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2115/1798494821_6302eb691b.jpg?v=0
What i didn't do was check the properties of the converted video files in FCE. Even though i "thought" I'd created QT DV PAL 48Khz 720 x 576 (as typed) what i'd actually created were 784 x 576... Don't ask me how... This caused a shift across transitions on the Canvas window (see screen grab) That vertical green line in the right is the actual edge of the video, anything to the right of it should be on the LEFT hand side of the video!
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2368/1798468781_b4f41f18b1.jpg?v=0
Anyway, following Tom's instructions i rechecked the settings and in QT Pro movie properties changed 784 x 576 to 720 x 756 saved, reopened the project and the world is good again.
On a further note though i do occasionally get odd results from my exported video. A 720 x 404 export from iStopmotion displayed as HD resolution when the QT file was played back...
Many thanks to Tom and a raised eyebrow for Quicktime....

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