Flash Quicktime Export leaves artifacts

I have a simple frame per frame based animation of graphical objects with audio. When I export it as Quicktime Movie I always get artifacts from moving objects left behind. For example a simple blue circle on white ground, leaves parts of the circle behind and parts of the background inside the circle.
I have tried every possible option (compressed as Animation, H264, uncompressed, double framerate etc.) in Flash Mac CS4 and its always the same problem. Now I thought this bug would be fixed in Mac CS5 or CS 5.5 but no, its still the same.
Anyone else having that problem?

Alright so I figured out what happens. I currently work with the CS5 version of flash and when you go to export a movie using quicktime, quicktime has settings like this:
click the quick time settings button and you get this:
you may want to change the size for whatever purpose, but that's not what causes a problem. You want to click the settings option to get this:
Alright here is the technical part of the explanation: These are Quicktime's Settings, NOT Flash CS5's. If your frame rate doesn't match the frame rate for the motion part of this window you can/will have artifacts in your video in quicktime. This is NOT a bug. It makes sense that your video may have artifacts because it is glitching with the difference in frame rate. I know this is super hard to figure out what happened, but it works. All you have to do is change these settings to match your frame rate, or you can change your initial frame rate in the original animation in Flash.

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