How to COMPRESS to MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format for MAXIMUM YOUTUBE quality?

I'm sick of slaving away here on fcp to then upload stuff to Youtube and have it look like ***.
YouTube suggests uploading as MEG4 (Divx,Xvid) format.
Is there a simple setting for that format within Compressor 2? What about QT player (I don't have pro, only QT v7.2)
Any thoughts?

The consistently best looking stuff I've uploaded to YouTube has been from Compressor preset H.264 LAN.
I had tried the compress-to-flv route and that worked great, but then YouTube changed its format, so it was back to H.264 LAN...
Patrick

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