IMovie 09 export issue

Has anyone experienced a problem exporting project using the Export>Export to Quicktime Movie...
Every time I use the Export to Quicktime , and this is the best way to export a quality result it just takes a Whole day to finish exporting!
I mean a DAY!
Example I just tried to export a 29min.34sec final project which should not take long to export.
on mine it says... Exporting time remaining 6hours.. A 1.5hr project takes 17hrs!! Is this for real, Apple!!
What the hack is going on. My Mac is upto date in speed , memory, etc etc.. I edit for living as a business and on my FCP it's so easy
The same project would take 40mins to export to quick time in FCP. So why is iMovie so so slow..??
I even tried re installing it..
Any answers please..
Thank you..

Hi again. I found out the cause of the problem. It is a bug on iMovie.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9421614#9421614
Apparently changing the speed setting to a custom speed on iMovie causes the exported files to go completely mad. This is my first time using the speed features on imovie 09. I changed the custom speeds to the preset ones on the clicker (turtle-bunny) and now the exports are good now.

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*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows.*
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Delete iMovie pref file - or rather start a new user/account - log into this and re-try
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• Hard disk is untidy. Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
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• Third party plug-ins that doesn't work OK (not relevant for iMovie’08 or 09)
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• Program miss-match. iMovie 6.0.3 or 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
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• Screen must be set to Million-colors
From LKN 1935. (in this case = iMovie HD (5), I tried it all, but nothing worked.
Your answer (above) has been helpfull insofar as all the different trials led to the conclusion that
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'Very visible in dark areas and peoples faces where the no. of colors are too low. Filesize is reduced too.'
In light you won't notice but the dark is just terrible.
Important: It has not to do with interlace. Interlacing is not the problem. It's the dark areas en people faces!
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But the strange thing is: When I do it on a small piece of footage. It works perfect. When I do it on a longer project: the footage is crappy again.
I worked a week on different home video stuff and it's not fun to see this decrease of quality.
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