Best Practice for 8mm 18 fps movies

I've just transferred a bunch of old 8mm home movies as image sequences. They were shot at 18 frames per second and transferred frame-for-frame as a series of TIFFs.
My goal is to edit these things in an 18 fps timeline and then export the finished video as an 18 fps quicktime -- then post them on Vimeo. It seems that this will produce the smallest amount of artifacting.
I've imported the clips and set their frame rate in "Interpret Footage". And I've created sequences at 18 fps by dragging a clip to the new sequence icon. My problem now is how to export. All the export options limit you to a menu of framerates -- but the menu doesn't include 18 fps. FLV let's you set a "same as source" framerate, but I'd prefer to create quicktimes. I know that I can do this in After Effects, but it's easier to do the editing work in Premiere.
Anybody have any suggestions how I can output at 18 fps? And will Vimeo (or any other video hosting service) accept that rate? And if this won't work, then what's the best way to get them to 24 fps? Would that be Twixtor?
Many thanks to anybody who can offer any suggestions --
Steve

For what it's worth, I ended up doing all the work in After Effects. It's much easier to edit in Premiere, but all the effects work I had to do was easier in AE and I didn't like worrying about that Intermediate Frame Rate issue.
Other Notes:
Vimeo is happy to show an 18 fps file. They don't say so in the docs, but if you ask their terrific support people, they'll tell you. I ended up creating a countdown timer, uploaded it, played it back and checked it with a stopwatch -- it played perfectly at 18. (I have a Plus account, which might make a difference, but I don't think so.)
AE won't render an MP4 file at 18 fps. If you ask it to render an 18 fps timeline as an MP4, you get a 15 fps MP4. So you have to make an H.264 Quicktime, which can be any framerate. And as far as I can tell mp4 files can work at any frame rate, but AE will only create them at standard rates. If anybody knows a better way to create an 18 fps file that Vimeo will accept, I'd love to know it.
Thanks to all of you for your input --
Steve

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