Convert DV/MPEG4 to WMV within Final Cut/Compressors/QTime??

Hi
I have a 45 second piece of corporate footage which originates on DV.
For internet streaming and for forwarding by email I 'reduced' this to MPEG4 and the quality looked great and it plays fine on most peoples systems.
However my problem is this: Some of the email recipients who are PC based are a bit old and unwieldy. They have only Windows Media Player on their system and are unwilling or unable to download Quicktime or Realplayer... Tsk, i know, don't ask!!. Anyhow how does one go about outputting the necessary file so that it becomes a WMV. Can I do this using the conversion tools on the Final Cut Bundle or should I be looking to other readily available tools to do this?
From the bit of searching I've done online one popular way of creating a true .wmv file is to use Quicktime Pro and software called wmv-9 available from Popwire. Does anyone have any experience of this before I shell out to buy it.
As a work-around for the time being I converted the MPEG4 file to an .mpg file using Toast's VCD creation facility. I found that the .mpg file generated will play in Windows Media Player and RealPlay but not in older versions of Quicktime.
So basically I have an MPEG4 file that plays in Quicktime and RealPlayer (..but not in any Windows MP) and a .mpg file that will play in Windows MP and RealPlayer but not all Quicktime Players.
Is there a file format I can convert it to (..or force it to) that is more universally accepted by all 3 main media players. I have used ffmpegX in the past for other conversions but this time around it does seem to be suitable.
If the bundled encoders can do the job what output settings, codecs etc should I use in Compressor, Quicktime Converter etc to achieve this?
Many thanks in advance for any help anyone is able to contribute.

An easy solution is be to use a Windows system with an analog video input card. Connect your Mac to your DV device, then connect the DV device's analog outputs to the Windows system. On the Windows system, download and install the free Windows Media Encoder from Microsoft. Use it to convert the feed from FCP's timeline to WMV format in real time.
-DH

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