Problems with Encore CS4 Flash Playback in webbrowsers

Here's my problem. I made a great DVD I was hoping to show online.
There are several options when I export.
You have export to flv or f4v. I'm not really sure what the difference is but I tried both. When I export to f4v I great great playback in firefox and new versions of IE...but older versions don't play.
When I export to flv I get choppy, unwatchable playback from all browsers. Even when I set the quality to low, the video is still crystal clear, almost like this option does nothing at all.
I was thinking maybe I could somehow compress the flv after it exports, or even hack the f4v to play in old versions of ie but I have no idea how to do either one!
These are both streamed btw. I know I saw that you can throw it up onto playstream and thats supposed to help playback, but my company doesn't want to pay for it.
Am I missing something? I'm under a really tight timeframe to have this stuff finished. Please help!
Erik

FLV and F4V use different codecs for Flash video. H.264 in case of F4V and On2 VP6 for FLV. There's a difference of bitrate between different quality presets. You can check the bitrates of files generated using some tool. Your video might be very static to feel the different be the two quality settings.
F4V is the new format and need a newer version of Flash Player. Please update your Flash player and try again to play the F4V files.
Playstream doesnt support F4V format. You can only export FLV files to Playstream.
It might also be an issue of low bandwidth while playing a streaming video. Are you playing is locally or from a web server.

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Thanks but, I had already done this. I was having THAT problem with Encore (could not even initialize before tanking) when I first installed it and that's when I updated the Roxio engine. I don't know what else there is to update or correct at this point.
There was one thing that occurred to me: When I was using XP, I had to disable Open GL in order to get Encore to stabilize. I've heard one recommendation for Encore that one must disable graphics acceleration. I would like try that here except I can't figure out how to do that in Windows 7.
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