Flash flv or Quicktime for web - What's best?

I have to produce a 10 minute video for a corporate website. Most users will connect via a LAN but some from home via broadband. I have the project completed and have output a minute via Media encoder to check quality / filesize of the options.
After some experimenting, I am reckoning on around 700x400 and keeping filesize down to around 7MB per min or so - with audio at AAC 32K forQT or 96k MP3 for flv. Video Bitrate around 800 for flash or 600 for QT. Customer seems keen for flash but QT seems to win hands down for quality. Just looking for comments / suggestions - am I missing anything or hitting way off mark?

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