Exporting imovie project for windows pc

Hi-
I created a project using imovie and exported it so I could put it on a website. It looks great on my mac but it won't play on a windows pc. I exported it by choosing "Export: to Quicktime" and "Formats:Web". It saved it as a .mov file and also created several large DV Movie files. The DV Movie files would take forever to upload to the webhosting site server but the .mov file took a few seconds. What am I doing wrong? Help! Thanks.
15" laptop G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hello-
I'm using imovie 3.0.3 The mov file is 44kb. When you call it up on a pc, it says it needs the "fade in" file and goes on to say it needs all the clip files and other fades I put in. I did see that on the older project I did a couple of years ago for the same website, the clip and fade files that were uploaded were "kb" in size, not the original "mb" sizes. There was a way to export it so the file sizes were smaller and it played on both a mac and pc...but I can't remember. Would exporting it as a "self-contained" movie do the trick? The self-contained movie I created is 1.1 GB. It will take quite a while to upload...but I wonder if that would work?

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