Loose quality when export as mov

what is the best way to export my iMovie, and keep the quality at best?

The movie is going to be burned to a CD and will be played on mostly PCs (some Macs). When i "Share Using QuickTime", i get just the music, no video. Doesn't allow me to Share for "Media Browser" (only publishing options are TINY and MOBILE). When I just "Export Movie", it creates a M4V file and I can only select "LARGE". This seem to be the only thing that really works, but this is where i am seeing the loss in quality.
Note: I am currently using iMovie 9.0. Files imported into iMovie are stills (hi resolution PDFs, that were converted to JPGs.) Could this be the cause?

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