CS4 exporting and reduction of the file size

Hello,
I'm new to the Premiere pro. I'm trying to export the movie, which as a final product will be uploaded on the Web for the employees to download it on their computers.
It is a similar situation as TreeHugger98 posted on: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2004696
I had 3 WMV recordings of a Microsoft Live Meeting event - a conference call, with a bunch of PowerPoint slides and the audio of the presentation/discussion. Each about 25MB and 2 fps, 704 x 528, 16000 Hz - 16 bit, Mono. 
I have selected the settings for the project: (I'm in US) 720 x 480, 29.97 fps, 32000Hz, stereo, and scaled to the size.
I combined a few bits and pieces in one, so the final movie is 2 hrs long. I need to have a reasonable size output, so the file has to be downloadable, however no matter what settings I tried - the size is enormous, not to mention the rendering time. It doesn't have to be saved for both platforms - apart from designers, all employee have PC, so do I.
Could anyone help?
Thanks in advance

robodog2,
Thank you for answering - sometime I feel that all you guys are being bored with getting one question over and over, but I assure you your answers are being highly appreciating by newcomers such I myself.
I'm new to the Premiere pro. I'm trying to export the movie,  which as a final product will be uploaded on the Web for the employees  to download it on their computers.
You just need to put a file up on the web, not a "playing " movie ?  So they download the file ? - YES, this is what I meant, (however I tried to publish the mpg4, just to see what I would get).
I  had 3 WMV recordings of a Microsoft Live Meeting event - a conference  call, with a bunch of PowerPoint slides and the audio of the  presentation/discussion. Each about 25MB and 2 fps, 704 x 528, 16000 Hz -  16 bit, Mono.
this isnt very specific...like how many bytes did you start out with to begin with for each source ( asset ). wmv is very compressed and it really isnt perfect for "editing" as it is a "delivery" format...for viewing, not editing...
Regardless, if you export that to anything that isnt really compressed it will probably be a larger "byte count" than you started with, because wmv is very compressed to begin with... know what I mean ???
2 hours of avi type 2 SD ( standard definition 720x480 ) is roughly 26 GIGABYTES in byte count....
These are the details of the files I started out with: exactly the size were: 20MB, 25MB and 24MB, all of them 2 fps, 704 x 528, 16000 Hz -  16 bit, Mono.  I have read about the compression, but this is very valuable information: what file type would be perfect for editing then?
I have selected the settings  for the project: (I'm in US) 720 x 480, 29.97 fps, 32000Hz, stereo, and  scaled to the size.
without knowing what you had to begin with who knows what this project setting did...but basically you must match your assets specs with the project settings....
Which are what, in this example...? I went trough all the available settings and I couldn't decided which would be the best. I was only sure, that it had to be NTSC aspect ratio 4:3.
I combined a few bits  and pieces in one, so the final movie is 2 hrs long. I need to have a  reasonable size output, so the file has to be downloadable, however no  matter what settings I tried - the size is enormous, not to mention the  rendering time. It doesn't have to be saved for both platforms - apart  from designers, all employee have PC, so do I.
"no matter what settings I tried " doesnt tell me anything really...I have no idea what you tried ....please be more specific about this....and what the parameters of your final product have to be...in other words, can you downsize the product a little bit ? Make it smaller than 720x480 ?
What do the people who get this have to do with it ?? Just look at it ?  So maybe it doesn't have to be 720x480....making it smaller on the export side would make the byte count smaller and still be OK to view on a computer.
I have tried .mov,. mpg4 and back to .wmv again. I can go smaller than 780x480, unfortunately because of the compression the video is not very good quality to start with. The solution would be to use original presentation, save each slide separately an import to the project. Do you recommend doing that?
Thank you,

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