Export iMovie '08 project to QT-how to get best quality?

Hi,
Attempting to export iMovie '08 project to QT file. What are the best settings? Here's what I've chosen, but it won't let me select anything better than "medium" for quality. Any way around this?
Compression: Apple Intermediate Codec
Quality: Medium
Progressive
Dims: 720x480 (853x480)

I would like to know the same thing but not for another Mac... just another user. Should be almost the same procedure right?
My iMovie '08 is crashing like crazy! I just want to get the projects into iMovie using a fresh user and hope that fixes it. I can see where copying/moving preferences into the library of the other user (along with duping the projects in the movies folder) might succeed in opening the project in another user. I'm just afraid of moving bad prefs or something.

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