QT Motion Jpeg gamma issue

I jumped from using CS3 to CS5 so this may have popped up in CS4 and everyone else figured it out already.
I used to deliver files in QT Motion JPEG codec. However in CS5 when I output in that format everything looks washed out as though there is a gamma issue when playing back in QuickTime, or other editing software. If I open that QT file back up in After Effects it looks fine.
I'm not using color management, just an out-of-the-box installation at the moment.
I switched to delivering in QT Animation codec which solved the problem but the filesize was overkill for this particular project.
Any help is appreciated!

This did fix the problem asuming I want to bring the footage back into after effects. When I do that everything matches.
But...
If I open the original source footage up with QuickTime, or in a 3rd party editing application and compare it to the AE render made with "Match Legacy After Effects QuickTime Gamma Adjustments" and also compare to a render made without that setting turned on I get very different results
The original source looks good, but both renders look equally incorrect (washed out like a gamma problem)
Is After Effects adding a pripriatary tag to the output file that only AE is resepecting when it's loaded back in?
Thanks!

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