Exported Quicktime Won't Open

Hi,
I exported a couple of uncompressed 10-bit Quicktimes from an FCP 6.0.2 sequence (running QT 7.4.1). They open and play fine on my computer, but not on my client's PC. I burned them to data DVD's, the client dragged them to their hard drive, and tried opening in the latest version of QT for Windows. They get the recognition error, "not a file that QT understands." I don't really get where this could have gone wrong. Any ideas?

QT can handle a remarkable number of codecs, which obviously play well on your natively QT based Mac machine with FCP installed and not on a PC.
QT is a FAR more complex wrapper then AVI (usually installed by default on PCs).
QT files can contain multiple video and audio tracks while AVI cannot.
Uncompressed 10 bit may not indeed run on an average PC but maybe one PC that have installed Premiere Pro 3.0 might....
That could be a lead.
G.

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