Best settings for Flash output PREL 8

Hi all,
I apologize if this is a repeat question, but I've spent a couple of hours already today trying to find the answer and to no avail.
Here's what's happening: once completed, my creative agency sends me the file (mov format...details below) and I export it to flash (see settings below). When I export to flash video, all the white text on the black screen is fuzzy and borderline illegible, yet the rest of the video is fine. Any idea why this is happening?
Here's the details:
mov file settings:
exported in Apple Compressor
MPEG-4 format
ISMA Profile:  Improved
Frame rate:  29.97
Key Frame:  30
Bit Rate:  High VBR
Frame size:  720 x 300
Pixel aspect:  1.000 square
Fields:  Progressive
Retiming:  (Best) High qual. motion compensated
Resize filter:  Best (Motion comp)
Adaptive details:  off
Antialias:  0
Detail:  0
Audio:  AAC stereo
48 kHz
Sample rate:  44.100
Bit rate:  160
Flash output settings:
format: flv
codec: sorenson spark
frame rate: same as source
size:700 by 300
bitrate encoding:cbr
bitrate: 4,000
mpeg layer III - stero - 96 kps
system:
Premier elements 8
xp sp3
intel core 2 dup cpu e8400 @ 3ghz
2gb ram
2x7200 raid HD; 1 with program files, 1 with source/project files
page file 4000/9000.
Many thanks for your help
Jeff

Do you have any control over the format that your agency is sending the files to you in? An MP4 is one of the more challenging formats for Premiere Elements to work with.
You don't say which project settings you're using in Premiere Elements to work with these files -- but the combination of that and your file format could by why you're getting such mediocre results.
If they can send you MOVs using the DV codec rather than the H.264 codec, that would be a good start. You should be able to get great results editing a DV file in  Premiere Elements project set up for DV.
I'm not sure why you're outputting your FLV file at those strange dimensions (700x300), but that could also account for your blurriness, since you've down-rezzing the file to a lower resolution. Are these the specs your agency wants your video at?
Finally, how are you judging the quality of your FLV files? What are you playing them on and are you looking at them at 100% actual size or are you looking at them oversized or, worse, at full-screen on your computer? This too can affect your results.

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