Best QT export format for streaming video

I have a video clip placed in an iWeb web page which will be viewed (of course) by Windows users.
What's the best format to export and allow the widest compatibility with Windows browsers? I have a laptop running XP (SP 2), have just downloaded and installed the latest available QT for Windows software, and when trying to play the movie I get an alert advising "a component is needed which is not available on the server."
At present the video clip seems to download, and I get a control bar which will play the sound, but no video.
Suggestions?
I have QT Pro.
Ken

Guys,
Thanks for this info. Can I make sure I read right and ask a couple more questions re sharing movies on the web:
1) Exporting
Export: Movie to Quicktime Movie
Use: Streaming-Medium (even if there is no 'streaming'
Options>Video>Settings>Compression Type MPEG-4 .. and leave the other items as is?
Sound: Now I have to ask something here. When I use the defauly AAC it sound like it's being recorded underwater. I have been using Qualcomm Purevoice for no other reason than it suggests that speech comes out better! And it seems to. Please advise. Other settings leave as is?
Prepare for Internet streaming: Select Fast Start-Compressed Header
- interestingly, the big 'Q' often just sits there when you click on the movie so I don't know when and how this setting actually works.
2) Extracting Sound from a QT movie
I am going to take the sound of one movie and apply it to another, using, presumeably, Export: AIFF ... what settings should I use? In this case I want it to be high quality for use in a DVD. The default setting appeared to come up as mono
3) Is there a utility to concatenate QT movies? I found one once on Version Tracker, but it always seemed to fall over.
4) Concatenating QT files. We all know that if you do a copy-paste concatenation, then delete a component file, it screws up (can't find file). Yet, if you merely change the length of one of the component files, it isn't reflected in the concatenated file ... also, if you cut a piece out of a QT movie and then merely save it (cmd-S) it does not reduce the overall size of the file by that amount unless you save as self-contained to another name... how the dickens do you work most efficiently with them? Are there all these rogue pieces of unreferenced, excess movie clips now littering my hard drive?
Really appreciate your help.

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