Quality problems when exporting mini DV AVI clips CS6 ...

I'm working with some SD footage that was captured from a Sony miniDV consumer camcorder (using VideoStudio).   Files are stored in .avi format; 720x480; 29.97; PAR .9091; Gspot reports codec dvsd, DVC/DV Video.    My PC is newer with an i7 3930, 32GB, GTX 670, WD Caviar Black RAID 0.
When I play the original AVI files on my PC they look ok in Windows Media Player. If I export a clip or two from PP using the AVI format that resultant file plays/looks ok too - I can't tell a difference from the original although my wife claimed she could see a minor degradation in the result.   However, if I export to any other format the resultant encoding looks absolutely terrible - particularly where there is motion.   I've tried MPEG-2, MPEG-DVD, MPEG I-Frame, and H.264 formats. I realize there is a quality loss from encoding and these other formats are more compressed, but the results are absolutely horrible.
I cannot play an .avi file natively on my PS3, but I did play all the other encodings natively on my PS3 off a flash drive and they look terrible there too.
I took the MPEG-DVD encoding and built a DVD with Encore. Encore correctly did not transcode again.   Then I played the DVD on my PS3 and same situation - terrible.
I then took an AVI encoding exported from PP and loaded it into Encore to make another DVD, which obviously transcoded in this case.   When I play the DVD on my PS3, it looks ok.
What is going wrong here?   Did I miss something on the video settings on export for these other formats? Or are these results expected?
Thanks,
Jon

On the workflow notes, I went through those posts that John Smith mentioned, especially the video which I had seen prior. I had done what was suggested creating a sequence from the clip. However, PP set the sequence up as progressive. Is that to be expected? Or did I miss something here? Anyway, in the future I will pop over to the Settings panel and sanity check.
Regarding the Modify->Interpret and determining interlaced vs. progressive, here is a screen shot. I can see Progressive is grayed out, so I assume that is how to tell it is interlaced, although why doesn't it tell you the field order? In practical terms, do people just know what they are dealing with from the start in most cases?

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