Exported movie cannot play on iPod with video

I exported my slide show to 320x240 .mov file (containing a fairplay AAC track from iTunes). I then dragged it into iTunes and it loads successfully onto my iPod with video. The movie shows up in iPod's menu but when I go to play it, I get a black screen for about 10 sec. (length of movie= 5min38sec) and movie ends.
This file plays fine in iTunes6.0.1 and QT7.0.3. I try to export the movie from QT to iPod format but Export is disabled with that movie probably due to fairplay limitations.

Hi anthony,
You will probably get better answers in the iPod Video discussions, but here are two Apple links to help you out.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301461
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302559

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