Achieving Clean-Looking (non-pixelated) Graphics in iMovie

Here's my situation... Please help if you can!
I made a short movie to be played as the "auto-play" movie in my iDVD project. This movie is about a minute long, and includes several titles, as well as one logo. Because of the limited titling options in iMovie, I created my titles/logo in Illustrator, imported them into Photoshop, and saved them as high-res jpgs. I then imported the jpgs into iMovie to be used as clips.
Here's the problem: Everything I try seems to result in jagged graphics in iMovie -- especially, and importantly, my logo. I have tried copying different sizes of the vector art in Illustrator before "placing" in Photoshop. I have tried saving the jpg files in different resolutions from Photoshop. When I look at the resulting jpgs in Photoshop or Preview, etc., they all look clean and "high-res." Why then, don't they look good in iMovie, and what can I do?
Here's what I've also tried: I have saved the vector art as a .swf file from Illustrator. I can open it in Flash or Flash Viewer and it looks great. Since iMovie doesn't allow .swf files, I think I need a way to export the .swf as a Quicktime movie. Since I don't have QT Pro, I'm sorta stuck. I'm willing to pay for it, but I'm nervous that it won't work well, since I tried using the Quicktime export feature of the trial version of MediaEdit Pro, and it didn't look good.
Does anyone have any thoughts on 1) how to best achieve clean graphics in iMovie, 2) if my theoretical QT Pro solution would produce a good (great?) result, and 3) if there are any other options besides the complex routine I described above?
Many thanks in advance for your help...
-Jason

If you pressed the Create iDVD Project button in the iDVD tab of iMovie, the jaggies may have been added by iMovie when it rendered the images. There's info about that bug and workarounds here:
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