Losing chapters on export

Hello, I am using iMovieHD 6.0.3. I import a QT video slideshow created in FotoMagico. Then I am editing by adding titles and finally adding chapter markers. Everything runs fine in iMovie but when I export the QT video I lose all the chapter markers. I have tried all the QT export options to no avail. What am I doing wrong?
Also, if my application is to create the maximum quality QT video for play on the Mac what settings should I use?
I also do not think I can retain the chapters in a QT video to be uploaded to the web?
Thanks in advance! Rick

Rick,
I've been able to get this to work, here's how.
Open your movie in QuickTime, go to File, Export, for the Export select "Movie to Hinted Movie", that will create a Quicktime movie with the chapter markers.
To put the chapter markers in, either use your FotoMagico software (if it has that feature), or iMovie '06 HD or iMovie '08 + GarageBand '08

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First I should emphasize that I am new to Adobe's products, and am learning it on the fly as part of a intelligent tutoring system design project. So I apologize for my lack of technical knowledge in advance. Rest assured I have put much effort in attempting to solve this problem on my own and by referencing this forum and other web sources, but sadly with no success.
FYI, I am using the CS4 Master collection.
My question pertains to retaining the quality of my video once I export it to .flv format via Media Encoder from Premiere Pro. My main video source is an .flv file that i have imported into my media browser. Initially I ran into a problem with the importing because it did not recognize H264 as having any media, and so I had to convert to Sorenson format to get it to import successfully. But it seems to have imported just fine without any loss of quality in the workspace. So that isn't my main issue but perhaps it is related.
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Otherwise does anyone know of any other programs that can edit .flv files and offers multiple video & audio tracks?
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Ah yes I left out that detail. My source video is 640 x 480 also so the output is not an increase in size.
This is different from my sequence settings. Which is 1440 x 1080 16:9 ratio. Pixel Aspect Ratio is HD anamorphic 1080 (1.333).
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In a text editor, like TextEdit in the Applications folder, type your list of chapters.
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*{textBox: 0, 0, 50, 160}one*
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