White Background Isn't Really White -- Gray #F8F8F8

I'm having a funny issue with FCE 4.0. I have keyed out a grayscale background and inserted a solid white background underneath. The movie preview window looks perfect; however, when I export the video the white background is no longer white. The gray value is #F8F8F8 or 2.7% grayscale.
I think I've exhausted all the rendering configurations and am now thinking it has to do with the color pallete of the video file. I shot this video using a Canon HF10, then imported into iMovie 08 and exported to Final Cut XML.
The reason why I think it's an import issue is because I have had videos exported from iMovie 08 in the "iPhone" format with correct white levels, but I cannot get the desired white level from FCE. After hours of searching the only lead I have is that the color pallete might not be set to RGB; yet, I see no way to adjust the colors from YUV -> RGB in Final Cut Express (if this is even the case.. I dont know what my imported movie is set as, RGB or YUV).
Any help would be greatly appreciated. If this is very unusual, then I can try to get a sample Final Cut file for you guys to look at.
Thank you for any help, and please let me know if I can provide more information.

So I've figured out the culprit is an RGB filter on my video.
What I've done is place a solid white rectangle at the top most layer, I still key out the background, but the video has a floating white rectangle now which should have the value #FFFFFF once rendered.
Layer 3 - Floating White Rectangle
Layer 2 - Capturee Video <--- RGB Filter
Layer 1 - White Background
Even though the RGB filter is only on Layer 2, it seems to affect Layer 1 and 3. I'm very new to Final Cut & Video editing, but I would not imagine a filter applied to a single layer affecting all layers in a project, is this not the case? If it is, anyone have some ideas on how to limit the effects of that item to Layer 2 only? I require the RGB filter to fix some unevenness in my Captured Video prior to Keying the background.

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