Weird Picture- Color is horrible

Hi- compressed this picture in Compressor using the H.264 (800kbs) preset. The source was DV that was rendered from mostly HDV content. One the iMac I compressed it on (running Leopard) it looks great, but when I view it on a G5 running 10.4.9 it looks horrible- all of the color is all messed up.
On the G5 I do have the latest version of QT, what's even stranger is that when I bring it into FCP at home it looks OK, and the FCP I have at home is old- ver5.
http://www2.grooveaddicts.com/music/onthecusp/OnThe_CuspTeaser.mov
Any ideas? Thanks.

Looked fine to me, then again I don't have the source. It could be the version of quicktime. A couple of things, the aspect ratio looked wrong and if you're going to distribute on the web, why not make it progressive? Just a couple of thoughts.

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