Help Suggestions Needed: Flash Video VS. Animated .Gif

Hi everyone,
My goal is to post an image on my blog that continuously plays different image frames. I'm new to using other programs in the Adobe Suite other than Photoshop, so I started to achieve my goal by making an animated .gif
The quality of the animated .gif anyway you try to adjust it ends up not being the best quality, so I thought I would try making a Flash Video. I was successful at making my image frames into a QuickTime Video, but this is not really exactly what I wanted. I was hoping someone might know of a way to achieve the animated .gif concept of continuously playing images, but with much higher quality??! At this point, any and all suggestions would be very much appreciated
Thank you

Hi Howard,
Yes, your wording is perfect! That's exactly what I'm trying to do and still be able to use it on blogger.com
Working with an Animated .Gif I'm not getting the quality I want, but other than that it would work perfect. As a video with Flash the images don't
continue to loop, but start and stop as a video should with play options. So, this is even more of a stretch from what I originally was trying to
accomplish.

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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd979781(v=exchg.141).aspx
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