So the new Adobe 2014 update has 'fixed' some of my primary issues- Choppy playback (Video and audio) and GPU acceleration still has some bugs. I rendered my entire sequence (really fast) but strangely ONLY the lower thirds with alpha channels play back with the horizontal lines. They stop immediately after the RENDERED lower third passes. When I play the movie UN rendered the same lower thirds play back fine. (weird)
I can look at each RENDERED clip and see the lines even when the CTI is sitting on it. It looks like all the primary video plays just fine.
However- the biggest issue continues- I have tried exporting to AME and it's just ticking off time- no movement in the render status bar.
Looks like only PART of my issues were resolved with Adobe's 2014 update. This did NOT fix all the issues- at least for me I'm sad to report.