Exporting QT movie to be encoded to Flash

I need to export FCP projects to be encoded for Flash on another machine. The way I understand it, exporting a self-contained QT movie is the fastest and best export, so that's what I've done.
I've saved the QT export (from a Mac) onto a server and opened with another machine (a Windows PC), but all I see is white with audio. I'm using Sorenson Squeeze for the Flash encoding.
When attempting to open the QT movie, I get the error message that the PC is missing a codec.
Is there a way to find out which codec I need to install onto this PC so these self-contained QT files can be encoded to Flash?
Is the simple answer to export FCP files using Quicktime compression and then encoding to Flash?
I'd like to try encoding the self-contained QT files because it seems the files lose substantial quality when compressing twice.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

The PC has Sorenson Squeeze (v4.8)installed on it which includes the Sorenson FLV player. It does not have a shockwave player installed.
The full QT files are either burned to DVD or sent via FTP to the encoding PC.
Quicktime Player (7.4.5) is installed on the encoding PC.
As a note, when exporting a self-contained QT file out of Final Cut Express, we do not have this issue. Only files exported out of Final Cut Pro have this white screen issue.
Shawn, I will take your advice and find the installation disk and install. In the meantime, if any of you have any other thoughts or suggestions, I'd really appreciate hearing them.
Thanks a ton.

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