IMovie exported to Quicktime has jagged transitions

I have a slideshow (using Ken Burns effect on all pictures) that I just exported from iMovie 6.0.3 to Quicktime, using the H.264 Codec.
I used the "wash in" and "wash out" transitions for each picture. In the Quicktime version, every transition is wicked jaggy -- it looks as though each photo is disintegrating, rather than washing out.
Here are my other settings: Quality: high, frame rate: 15, bitrate: 20 kbits/sec, frame reordering: yes, encoding mode: multi-pass, dimensions: 640x480, scale: letterbox.
What setting can I change in order to ensure smooth transitions? Thanks!

When you export out of iMovie are you doing it using Share> Export QuickTime file or Export Movie? Believe it or not, you can export to Movie and rename the file extension from .m4v to .mp4 and get that to play on any Windows machine with Windows Media Player installed. It maybe a simple matter of saving it out to Movie, renaming it and sending that one along to the client, see if that one works better.

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