Export quality troubles

Please help how to make a good quality movie file after export.
I just would like to understand which export options I should choose to make it optimal (minimum quality loss and normal file size).
I've tried many options including even 'no compression' quicktime .mov file. In the last example I got 67 Gb 'black screen + sound' file for 12-minute film. The same with DV, however, the file was not so big.
h264, avi and some others - I've chosen best quality possible, but the result is too vague.
It's too long to try all the options possible, please give a wise counsel.
Second problem: after export I hear sounds which I don't (and should't) hear in the project and vice versa: I don't hear in the exported result what I hear in the project. Audio panel is detached, video and audio are fine in the project, but results are unacceptable.
Third problem: iMovie'11 sometimes does not register micro-level audio adjustments when I play a piece to check the result, I can't hear what I've made until the program is simply reopened.
What can be done?
Many thanks

when I play these .mov files separately (whether in actual size or fullscreen), they look quite acceptable, not DV/HD, but better than the result (you can check how it looks, http://vimeo.com/16457205)
I don't expect them to look better than they are after export, I just want not to loose at least this fair to middling quality. Is it a deadlock actually?

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It looks the same as iMovie 08.
I did a compare one day using the same clip burned to DVD from iMovie 06 and from iMovie '08.
The iMovie 06 clip looked like it came from the DV camera directly and the iMovie 08 clip looked much worse. The difference is the single field processing used by iMovie 08/09 and the fact that it throws out every other horizontal line.
Because the two softwares handle the imported video differently - single field processing is how iMovie 08 / 09 handles the video, meaning that one of every two lines of the image is ignored. iMovie 06 uses ALL of the image to form the video.
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Moja.
I took this article from: Is Your Footage Suffering from the Massive Difference in Export Quality Between FCPX & Premiere?
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After seeing this I can confidently say that I will not be compressing to H.264 using Premiere Pro or Adobe Media Encoder any more. [sic] The image from Premiere is so much blockier, less detailed, and muddy looking, not to mention that the colors aren’t at all accurate. In fact I even did another output test later on with Premiere Pro set to 20,000 kbps and FCP X only set to 10,000 kbps and still the FCP X image was noticeably higher quality, so clearly something is up.
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Dropbox - WALKING 444.jpg
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Dropbox - WALKING AME.jpg
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