.mov to .gif (animated gif)

Hi Apple fans
I have the worst case never resolve to submit in the history of Apple. Have spent in total 2 and half hours on the phone with Apple customer service and nobody found an answer.
I am building up a website and I want to insert an animated background. I have spent 2 days trying to find a software that convert video (.mov QuicKTime 7) to animated GIF. So far nobody has found a way to do it.
I have a cross platform Windows XP Sp3 and Snowleopard 10.6.4 on the iMac 9.1 for start.
On the Snowleopard I have Final Cut Pro 6, iLife 09, Quick Time 7 (pro?) , Final Cut Express that can edit video. I bought Quick Time Pro especially because it has the capability to convert .mov to .gif. But it does not!!! it convert .gif to .mov only and there is the proof ( http://support.apple.com/kb/sp521 ) information given by Apple customer Support.
On Windows XP SP3, I have Adobe CS3, Video2Gif, AVS video Converter, Gif Optimizer...but as usual , products advertised do not do what they pretend to do on Windows platform, it's just a matter of making you downloading any s*t that can crashed you PC.
So now I am left in limbo between a cross platform operating system that can accept software for their respective OS but can do the job I want them to do.
I call upon any Genius that will be able to resolve my issue which is to convert movies in .mov to animated .gif to insert them as animated background for a webpage.
Thank you very much.
PS: I'm sorry guys I'm out of box of chocolate but will be happy to send one to whoever resolve my concern.

First question would be why you want (or need) the ancient .gif file in the first place:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraphicsInterchangeFormat
QuickTime Player Pro can import dozens of image file formats and import "Image Sequence" (up to about 65,000) to display as a .mov file.
Such a small palette of colors is available in the .gif file format and they look really ugly if colors are removed from your source files. The .png format allows more colors (and alpha channels for transparency) and are supported by all modern browsers.
You can export nearly any supported video format to "Image Sequence" via QuickTime Player Pro. Use a modern image editing app to convert (ugh) them to Graphics Interchange Format and then a dedicated GIF creation app to make your file. No doubt you will be disappointed by the results.

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