Poor quality in FLV Player (quality is good in Adobe Media Player)

Basically, I converted a movie to FLV with Adobe Media Encoder and it looked great.  Then I inserted the video (Insert > Media > FLV... > Progressive Download Video) into my html page and when I view it back that quality was very poor.
Any ideas??
Thanks...
ps - you can view the poor quality video here: http://www.ndtestpage.videotest.html

I make slideshow movies using still photos exclusively. Here is the process I use when I want to make a DVD from an iMovie project.
In iMovie I set the ratio to 16:9 and I also crop many of the photos in iPhoto to 16x9 (HD) - this works best for pictures in landscape; it's not good for portrait photos. Also, cropping this way doesn't work for all landscape photos either: sometimes I lose details that make the photo 'good' and so just leave it uncropped.
When the project is finished I choose Share>Export using QuickTime and click "options". In "options" I use the following:
Compression: H.264
Quality: Best
Frame rate: 29.97
Frame reordering: yes
Encoding mode: multi-pass
Dimensions: 1920x1080 (HD)
Scale: Letterbox
I use either iDVD or Roxio Toast to create a DVD.
The issue of the quality of DVDs made from iMovie projects has often been discussed in this forum. The process and settings I use may not be strictly kosher, but I do get good quality DVDs this way and so I stick with them. My projects are usually between 20 to 30 minutes in length.
I hope this helps.
(I haven't tried iMovie 11 yet.)

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