Exporting for best quality

Hello. I've been reading the forum, the manual, and trying different things to get the best results and I'm still not sure I'm getting the best for what I need. And to be honest "what I need" is part of the question.
I've made a music video that is to be used for presentations. It will be on various computers using at times different projectors. I'm sure it will be played on mac's and windows based computers.
1. What should my final format be so that it will work on most every computer?
2. Does it need to be interlaced?
I've attempted about a dozen mpeg videos, trying different settings and everyone the quality is very poor. I only mention this b/c if this is what is recommended I'll need some help here as well.
I do have it in the following formats with great quality, but are they normally this large for a 5 minute video/movie?
1. AVI 1.03 gigs
2. QuickTime 1.07 gigs
I'm using FCE 4.0.1
Thanks in advance for helping. I'm worn out trying to figure it out on my own.

You know, I read some of these articles on getting the best quality and they don't always hold true.
I made an excel spreadsheet, and played with all the settings and listed the results on the spreadsheet
So I took a 5 second clip from one of my music videos and tried it in H264, DIVX, AVi, etc...
Tried it in different sizes, different bit rates, different key frame rates, different FPS
It was worth it. I know, I know, there are all these articles on the web on how to get the best picture quality and quite frankly I don't agree with them all. And, if you are doing music videos where the average edit cut is every 3 seconds or less and there is a ton of movement from frame to frame, it's worth playing around.
These file sizes are huge that you made - 1.03 gigs for a music video? Mine average anywhere from 50 mb to 300 mb at the large end
Listen, post your settings here for the Quicktime 1.07 gig file that you made
List the following from the FCE export compression/converter settings:
FPS - frames per second?
Key Frame rate?
Bit rate?
Size? (720 x 480 for example if that is what your setting is or did you custom sized it?)
I don't know what camcorder you used, but try the interlacing
This test clip that I did for a recent music video
It is 17 MB - 40 seconds long (not fully color corrceted or edited at this point)
http://www.skyjamvideos.com/images/Sequence_1.mov

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