"I also took some time to look at the begining and ending frams of my sequence of individual .tga files for that 500 frame animation. They are perfectly individual, as well."

Thanks for doing that, but this will not show you what I'm talking about. Yes, the frames will each be slightly different. However, this does NOT prove whether easing in and out is occuring. You don't need to render to see what Vue is doing. You simply need to look at the distance travelled (look at the numbers) of an object in the first few frames compared to other frames later in the animation.

-Tim