I'm not using Motion, but FCP and Compressor seem a bit quicker; here's what I've done:
My G5 dual 2.5GHz has FCS 1 (FCP 5.1.4) and was running QT 7.4 (not 7.4.1) and Leopard 10.5.1 successfully. Today I cloned this setup, and dismounted and unplugged the drive.
I repaired permissions and downloaded the 10.5.2 updater from Apple. (didn't use software update).
After it was finished, I checked software update, where I got QT 7.4.1, the ProKit update, the Leopard Graphics update and the iLIfe support update. I installed all of these via software update.
Upon restart, everything seemed fine; I captured, edited, rendered, exported with Compressor, etc.
Print to Video worked OK, too. Compressor handled my 5 min. video clip in 7 min.; it did the identical clip before with the exact same settings in around 10 min.
QT and DVDSP all seemed good, as well. Most appreciated is that the Photoshop CS3 tools are all working as they should, now.
So far so good; next I'm going to do the same routine on my Mac Pro, which is running FCS 2.
I should mention that originally, both of the machines had clean erase and installs of Leopard, not upgrade installs. That might be making the difference now.