IMovie Quicktime Output Whitewashed on PC

I'm seeing something strange when I output my iMovie HD output to Quicktime. It works just fine on the Quicktime 7 player on my MacBook Pro. But the Quicktime Player on a Dell PC (Windows XP) is displaying the .mov file nearly completely whited out. Is there a trick to this? I know the Quicktime Player on the PC works fine in most circumstances, but I had to output the movie to AVI (yuk) so I could get the movies to my target audience.

Sue,
An interesting article, but since it applies to QT playback on Macs, it probably doesn't diretly apply to viewing his clip on a PC.
However the QT CODEC used and color profile used probably ARE where his problem lies.
hajush,
What QuickTime encoding did you use? If yoy can't remember, open the clip in the QuickTime Player on a Mac and select Window>Show Movie Info
F Shippey

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