Export to DV FULL QUALITY quality loss

I'm perplexed.
In the past, I have exported to DV without a hiccup, but now I'm having troubles. I need to encode some home videos to Mpeg-2 so I have to use another method than iMovie. I want to export to DV and then encode the video with ffmpegx, Mpeg Streamclip etc... but when I export the 16x9 video "full quality" it is NOT full quality. It looks horrible. When I export it, it looks very blocky - like it's a lower resolution. Of course, when I try to covert the file to another format (in this case mpg) it retains it's "uglyness..."
But the ODD thing is if I take the "poor quality" exported DV and re-import to an iMovie project, it displays properly from within iMovie.
Suggestions?
Tom

Thanks again for your replies. I am using iMovie 6. Here's a couple of snapshot to see what I'm talking about.
The first shot is a capture directly from the .mov reference file within the iMovie file package.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2332/1799517306181c3840eeo.png
You can see the girl's legs are a little blurry, but with the video running it looks fine.
The second shot is a capture from a full quality .DV export as viewed in VLC. Is that an interlacing issue? The ridges are viewable at all times as objects are in motion in the video
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2230/17986776196cc455506do.png
Thanks for your comments about the high quality checkbox. It helps, but doesn't solve the issue.
Also, I double checked the frame rate and they are both all 29.97.

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