1080p quality issue in Premiere Pro, AME CS3

I wish to create a video of the very highest quality from a series of 1920x1080 tiff still images (created on the computer - scientific vis.) for playback either on computer or Blu-ray disc. I import the images as "Numbered Stills" in Premiere, then export to Adobe Media Encoder. I've tried using presets for mpeg2, h.264 (with and without "blu-ray"), and in every instance, when played back on the computer, the video is quite a bit fuzzier and "jaggier" than the original images. (Note that I always choose 1920x1080, progressive, high quality, etc.)
Obviously, the encoded video has a data rate much lower than the original images (which are 6 MB apiece). Is this loss of quality inevitable? If not, how to increase? Is there a difference in the quality of the output of the CS3 and CS4 Media Encoders?
Thanks much!

HD Tach doesn't seem to work under Vista (32-bit). I don't suspect that disk speed is an issue, though, because an uncompressed AVI, which is 3X the size of the Lagarith compressed file, plays back smoothly. (And the Black Magic Design disk speed test did not point to a problem with disk read speed.)
Here's where we seem to be: Uncompressed AVI file looks good (i.e., no jagginess) and runs smoothly enough on this computer. Lagarith compressed file looks good (no jagginess), but runs jerkily (skipping frames, apparently, to keep up the original frame rate) on all players. Mpeg2 and H.264 encodings look jaggy, but play back smoothly.
Question: do you know of other encoders we might try? I.e., we could produce a high quality, perhaps uncompressed, AVI file, then produce an Mpeg2 or H.264 file from that. With a different encoder, perhaps the jaggies would go away.
Again, thanks for all your help.
P.S. You might ask: why not just use the uncompressed file if it looks good and plays back smoothly. Well, our final playback venue is a conference where we'd much rather bring a laptop or (ideally) Blu-ray player rather than this computer.

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