Compatibility with Powerpoint on Windows

Hi,
I use iWork mainly for page layout work in iWork but I have been trying out Keynote lately. I am a scientist doing my PhD and I was toying with the idea of making my confirmation seminar in Keynote because it is so much better than powerpoint. The problem is I have to do the presentation on a Windows XP machine with Office XP. I just wanted to know if I will run into any problems when exporting to a .ppt file. I am going to stick to the main Windows fonts and I think I will steer clear of any fancy transitions in case they don't show up.
Is there anything else I need to know? Any graphics formats that won't work and any other features I should avoid? I need to insert some graphs but Keynote's beautiful graphs look a bit blurry in Powerpoint 2004. I was thinking of making my graphs in Graphpad Prism anyway.
Thanks in advance,
Ben

One more thing I was wondering, do GIF files support transparency and vector data? I have been working on a graph in the program Prism on Windows. This program can export directly to powerpoint- from what I can tell, it sends the graph as a .pdf image into a new slide. The graph looks great on Windows when I do this but does not appear at all in Powerpoint 2004 on the mac.
Keynote actually shows the graph correctly, but if I then work on it in keynote and export to Powerpoint again, keynote converts the image to a .png file which will work in powerpoint on the mac but looks a bit blurry. The graph then appears black when I re-open it in windows! What a nightmare!
Graphpad prism does have other export options but I'm not sure which would be the best to preserve the appearance (transparent background) as well as cross-platform portibility. The options are:
EMF, WMF, PDF, EPS, TIF, JPG, PNG, BMP, PCX.
I thought maybe I could try TIF, then use a program like graphic converter to change it to a GIF file?
Ben

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