FCP Pro HD: Export talking head with transparency!

I've read through a number of posts about this, but what I'm trying to do is this:
I've shot video of a talking head on a green screen.
I've keyed the shot.
Now I want to export the movie with the Flash Video Encoder and just get the talking head with no background. The background will be transparent so that when I import to Flash, I can have objects moving behind it.
IS THIS POSSIBLE IN FCP PRO HD???
It seems like everyone points to After Effects for this type of work.

Do not render before export. If you do, you will get the flat rendered output - no transparency...
Are you talking about a FCP 4.5-specific issue?
(I ask because I'm able to export an alpha channel for a sequence, even though it's been rendered, in FCP 5.0.4)

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