Exporting Movies as Quicktime Issue

I've been having major issues with exporting animations from Flash CS4 as Quicktime movies with and alpha channel. I seem to always get some kind of artifacts showing up. Basically, it looks like chunks of the graphics remain in place for a few frames and then disappear. I am exporting as Animation at 100% quality... and I work on a Mac. Has anyone encountered this issue and found a way to solve it? Please see the attached file for reference.
thanks

One more thing to add: when I move the clip to the correct place in the timeline (in this case it's at 16:20:30;00) the exported clip does not start on the same frame that it was set in the original sequence. I was off by a little over a second so I repositioned it in the original sequence and exported again. The second export had the correct starting frame but the last frame was off by over 3 seconds.
Any ideas?

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