Wandering colors when animating text generator

Just tried a simple Basic Animation of font color in a generated text block for a title, as on pp 188-90 in The Book. Instead of going from pale blue to deep blue between keyframes, my text flickered through most of the rainbow. Tried reversing the circular arrow adjacent to the color swatch but it seemed to happen either way.
To tell the whole truth, the problem started when I used three keyframes in this short text generator (superimposed on a black slug.) I wanted the color to come up to bright blue and then darken to black along with a dissolve into the first clip of my sequence. Was this too much to ask FCE 3.5 to do?
Any ideas or insight appreciated.
SS

Thanks, Tom. You've got my number - I probably got a little carefree with the buttonpushing, and of course the devil is in the details.
What I eventually did was revert all the way back to a clean sequence and settle for a simpler 2-keyframe effect, which did work fine. But now that I know it's possible I will try for the cooler up/down 3-keyframe effect again.
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