Exported graphics with text from Illustrator - text is very fuzzy

I am creating graphics in Adobe Illustrator CS3 on a Mac running OSX. The graphics consist of a pie chart and extra explanatory text below it. I do not have the option of doing the text part in another program.
When I exported as a jpg, put the graphic into Dreamweaver, and then put it onto the web, the text was fuzzy. When I used the Save to Web options, it was even fuzzier.
I use the default settings for both the jpg export and the Save to Web (gif and jpg) because I'm not sure what they all mean.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.

Jacob,
I looked at anti-aliasing and it was already checked for everything I've tried. I looked at the Save for Web gif file settings, and am not sure I understand what you are suggesting. Transparency has been checked for everything I've done. No dither is selected for the setting under that (rather than Diffusion, Pattern, or Noise Transparency Dither) - I don't know what that means.
I tried both jpg and gif using Save as for the Web. For jpg, I used maximum resolution, Progressive and ICCProfile were not checked, optimized is checked, quality at 100, blur at 0, matte is empty, and under Image Size, anti-aliasing and proportions settings are both checked and clip to artboard is not.
For gif, I used mostly defaults: selective, diffusion, transparency checked, No transparency dither (as mentioned), interlaced is not checked, image size anti-aliasing is checked and clip to artboard is not. Lossy is 0, colors 256, dither 100%, matte is blank, Amt 10% is grayed out and unchangeable, and web snap 0%. I don't even know what most of that is for.
When I did all of this, the images were more fuzzy than the one where I just exported from Illustrator as a jpg, which is also too fuzzy.
The only thing that comes to mind immediately is would this work better if all of the text were changed to outlines? And does anything else come to you that I may have not done?
Also, just in case you see my screen name, I changed it in between my post and this reply. msbnbb and Early Music Lover are both me.
Thanks for your help,
Marcy

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