Editing AVCHD (Panasonic HDC-HS20)

Greetings,
I searched for similar issues and read about people having trouble with AVCHD, but I honestly don't understand how to edit and export a high quality video, when it comes to PAL.
The video was shot as HA (about 17 Mbps VBR - 1920x1080/50i) with a Panasonic HDC-HS20. And I'm using Premere Pro CS4. Windows 7, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.93 Ghz, 4 GB RAM, NVIDIA 9400 GT.
The new project settings I chose were: AVCHD, 1080i25 (50i) Anamorphic and it says this:
For editing AVCHD Formats recorded in 1920x1080 square pixels (non-anamorphic).
16:9 interlaced HD video at 25 frames per second.
48kHz audio.
General
Editing mode: AVCHD 1080i square pixel
Timebase: 25.00fps
Video Settings
Frame size: 1920h 1080v (1.0000)
Frame rate: 25.00 frames/second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square Pixels (1.0)
Fields: Upper Field First
The export settings were:
1440 x 1080i 25 High Quality
PAL, 1440x1080 25, Upper field, Widescreen 16:9, High Profile, 4.0
But the video doesn't play correctly on WMP, as if there was something bad with the frames, and it looks completely distorted when I upload it to YouTube.
I'm sorry if I'm missing something obvious here, but I really don't know what to do. Any help would be more than appreciated.
Thank you very much in advance.

>using Premere Pro CS4
In that case, you should have posted in http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/premierepro_previous since CS5 is quite a bit different
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