Poor Output from AME (Premiere 4)

I love Premiere, but I hate the Adobe Media Encoder.  I think part of the problem may be that I am producing custom video for desktop and the web as opposed to media for DVD, Blu Ray, etc.
I am producing a series of short 16:9  Quicktime videos at a custom size from high-res progressive source files rendered in 3DS Max.
I have found that the Media encoder settings seem to be very restrictive with regard to bitrate settings, and that the best available quality when encoding to H.264, for example, is just plain crappy, and nowhere near as good as I can produce if I use the Sorenson Squeeze trial.
I think some codecs are just poorly implemented.  Both of the Sorenson codecs can not be configured, and bitrate options are limited.  The resulting video is horrible compared to the same result from the Sorenson encoder.
The animation codec for desktop QuickTime is just plain broken.  even at the best quality settings, the output is full of noise and artifacts and is markedly inferior to the output from the video encoder in Max or even in the cheap little Camtasia screen recorder.
In order to get clean video in QuickTime format, I have tried every combination of codecs I can think of. I can't set the bitrate high enough with H.264 or most lossy codecs, and animation and graphics codecs are clearly broken.  I seem to have to export huge files directly to component or raw output in order to get a high enough quality video.... and then, of course I have to find another tool to transcode that to something I can actually distribute.
What am I missing? I really want to use H.264. Is there a way to get at the deeper encoding options so I ca set up the VBR options and set a higher bitrate than the little slider on the options panel seems to allow?
What are other people doing?  Are most people using a third party compression or encoding utility like Squeeze?  If so, it sucks, because I didn't count on having to spend an additional 900 bucks on top of the cost of Adobe Master Collection.

ThreeDify,
Thanks for the info.  I will try this out.  I'm getting very discussed with AME.  Yeah, there are lots of presets...but the output is terrible.  Kinda like you find with having to use Squeeze.  Am I missing something?  There are posts all over the place that AME doesn't get it done so to speak.  Where is Adobe addressing these issues?
Does AfterEffects use a different encoder?  Why can I produce 'high quality' with AE and not with AME???  Yeah it takes longer to encode in AE but the final output is good.  Hmmm.
My goal here is to render to 1280x720 and make it for presentation with my 'high power' computer.  Then upload it to youtube HD.  When I try to convert it to Youtube it looks like crap.
Question:  What viewer do you use for .f4v files?  I'm using Adobe Media Player, and the .f4v files I have already made don't look good at all.
I view with Quicktime and Windows Media Player.  Get two different levels of quality with both.  Same problem on the internet, IE8 doesn't view youtube videos as well as FireFox...  Yes the delima goes on, and on, and on.........
I have got to get this to work..
I'm going to watch this thread for awhile.  Hopefully others will share their successes.
Thanks.
Dave

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