Exporting video into a .mov container

I'm liking the idea of trying to use Front Row as a media center, but I'm not expecting Apple to build in any support for subtitle files. Since there is next to no support for subtitle files under QuickTime - kind of ridiculous, if you ask me - I was trying to figure out what I could do.
I downloaded TitleLab, and was playing around with hardsubbing the video files with the subtitles. I've not really used the .mov container much, so I was pretty shocked to learn that I could save a video file out into .mov without having to re-encode it. (Since .mov IS a container, and not a codec, though, I shouldn't have been surprised.)
Here's something I've run into, though. I tried saving a file that had been encoded with DivX (showing Generic MPEG-4 as the codec) as a .mov file. When I play the clip fullscreen, however, the framerate goes to all ****. The original .avi file that I have plays just fine fullscreen under QuickTime Player.
Why is this happening? It is because, now that it is in a .mov container, the DivX codecs I've added to QuickTime are no longer playing it, and QuickTime itself is trying to? If that is the problem, then any suggestions on what other options I have for getting an end result where I can see the subtitles with the video under QuickTime?
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Just FYI, one reason why QuickTime doesn't support
subtitle files is because it has support for
text tracks IN the movie (as you see with TitleLab.
So, given the option of having a movie with a
built-in text track OR having to have two separate
files, it's not quite that ridiculous.
No, I know that... but that's only for the .mov container, right? Because of that, that isn't a valid excuse, to me. Back when there weren't many video format options, I can understand. But these days, QuickTime should be more supporting of non-Apple stuff, seeing as it is the main means of of OSX playing media. At the least, there should be the means for a third party to build on an added piece of software/code/whatever to allow QuickTime and QuickTime Player to run subtitle files, and if that ability is there, somebody needs to make it.
I downloaded a media player the other day made by one guy. It works mainly off of QuickTime, and it can handle subtitle files wonderfully. Why he can do it, and Apple can't or hasn't, is silly.
on't know of a way that you can have QuickTime
ignore the apple codec and use the DivX one. Does the
file still show Generic MPEG-4 when in the .mov file?
Yup - I'm getting the exact same information from QuickTime for the file originally, and then inside the .mov container.

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The reason that your video is playing back poorly is that a USB flash drive does not have the speed necessary to support playing back your movie. I am confident that the flash drive is just a way of delivering the file to your instructor, and that once delivered, they will transfer the mov file from the flash drive to a regular disk drive for playback.
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