Export Problem...The Sky looks terrible

This video was shot a couple months ago so I do not remember any of the settings, I know I mad a few mistakes, I did not modify the picture style like Philip Bloom suggests and I think I had a polarizing filter on.
The sky is not as pixelated in the original file from the camera but every time I export from Premiere Pro CS5 the sky looks like crap. I’ve been using the vimeo settings for HD which usually looks pretty good. Most of this will be displayed on my website in H264 format with a player from slideshow pro.
Any suggestions…….
Is there any single export preset for the h264 that works best for the web around the 700 px wide format?
Link to video
http://borosch.com/rear-video.html
Thanks
Mark

Colin
Thanks for the ideas, I'm a still shooter stat is starting to venture into video for my clients, so I'm a little new to this. I understand most of the settings you mentioned withthe exception of:
"At 2000kbps, you'd figure an encode would look better--I can get a better-looking encode at about 400kbps."
Could you please explain this or tell me where these settings are?
I've posted a screen shot of my settings.
It seems as if the export settings are not as clear with video as they are with stills. Do you know good export settings for videos to run on the ipad. I have one that works, but if I could improve that one too, it would be great.
Thanks
Mark

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