Poor Quality in Wide-Screen When Exporting HD to Quicktime

Hello all...
I'm working on a fairly large project in iMovie HD with wide-screen footage from my Sony HDR-HC3 and have hit a wall.
I can't seem to get a good result when I export clips into Quicktime in a wide-screen format. They are a bit choppy & you can see bits of some horizontal lines. The same video exported in full-screen VGA looks great. Any tips...? I basically just want to make good quality QT movies watchable on my computer that maintain the original aspect ratio (and LOOK like they do in iMovie!)
The entire project is around 100GB and I currently have almost 40GB of free space. Any help appreciated!
Dual 2.3 G5 with 4.5GB Ram   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

What do you need to end up with? Just a file to play back or burn to a DVD or make a web stream or?
Jerry

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