Poor quality when uploaded to youtube, etc.

My iMovie videos look great on my monitor. However when I upload them to video sites like Youtube, Google videos, Viddler, etc, the resulting video quality is very poor. I've submitted them as .avi, mp4, quicktime. Doesn't make any difference; they all turn out looking bad.
Is there a way to correct this?

Is there a way to correct this?
Not totally. You may, however, be able to improve the quality but, in the end, you are simply limited to the quality that is compatible with the rather low data rates used by such sites when they convert your files to FLV for display. Basically, you are submitting a file from iMovie '08 as either a "Mobile" (a 480 width clip targeted at 1.0 Mbps) or "Medium" (640 width clip at 1.7 Mbps) and YouTube scales it down to a 320 width clip with a total data rate between 0.10 Mbps and 0.35 Mbps which is probably selected automatically depending on the actual length and quality of your submission.
I'm not a YouTube user, but my general advice would be to keep your submissions short to maximize "headroom" during the conversion process. (I.e., don't submit a max duration or high data rate clip since it simply means that YouTube will have to discard a higher percentage of your data during the transcoding process to Sorenson H.264/MP3 making the visual differences between your submitted source file and the FLV file even more obvious to your eyes.)
Also, here is an article you might find interesting to read: Encoding for YouTube Using Compressor
My personal advice would be to upload files in a better quality compression format to a personal web site if you really want to control the quality of your output display.

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