Export problems - no quicktime, liney .avi videos...

hi guys
me again...
after getting my After Effects back into workin order (set compatibility for Win 2003 or somethin) - which works great now, I have a problems with Premiere CS3 - when I export video to AVI - its just lookin crap - the edges are square-ish, i see lines (if i turn off clip blend it gets better but not during fading out in the video)... plus, i cant export into .mov file - I can preset everythin and then once i click export it shows "Error compiling movie. Unable to create or open output file" ..... plus I cannot export to any uncompressed AVI format (it exports only sound... no video.. BUT I have no problem with Adobe After Effects! (i can even export into .mov with no problem except being unable to set sound quality (if i touch that setting, it crashes... but in AAE every setting of export works fine (either uncompressed or compressed... ) whats wrong with that premiere?? oh and cant forget to mention - in premiere the preview window just looks crap as well - and is freezin... please help guys...
oh and my PC spec is:
Intel pentium 4 2.8GHz
1.5 GB RAM DDR
plenty of HDD space...
thanks in advance guys:)

EDIT: i was wrong, with after effects- quicktime works there with no problems whatsoever .. (its the AVI where i cannot touch the sound settings... plus, i just looked at it when i did in After effects animation (just text plus some effect and exported it as a AVI with no compression (340MB or so) it looks great! but when i export my avi video from camera to avi (after putting some effects) its not that good lookin (it looses the quality.. :/ why??? wrong codecs? or settings somewhere?? honestly best lookin exported video I get from (im serious) Windows Movie Maker (LOL)

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OK! Sanyo use a bad format.
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