No hope for FCP export to QT

After two weeks of forums, going to Apple store, nobody can tell me what to do about my system's inability to export a FCP3 movie to Quicktime. It exports, but seems to pixelize (is that a word?), in high contrast areas and lags if the subject moves.
I'm stuck with that, and so am considering reinstalling or just upgrading my system. Is there any other sources of help I can go to besides this forum and Ken Stone's and I guess the Apple store people?

You might have to help me on this, I'm one of those artsy editors, my knowledge is just above basic. Where do I find the numbers you mentioned. I can open QT 6.5. The thing about this is, I made 5 perfect dvds, then suddenly it changed and I get pixel-corrupt QT files, rather than the previous okay files. Same project, same settings. And other projects that were good, now come out the same in QT.

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