Quicktime movies slow to upload

Dear Team
Is it possible to get Quicktime movies to be ready to play on accessing the page? At the moment I have four very short movies – each under 4MB on a page. It is taking about a minute, sometimes more, for them to upload. I’ve tried them on individual pages but the same problem.
Also impossible to get them to play all the way through in the program itself – they stop, start and jump.
I have followed instructions and converted movie to Quicktime movie, and then compressed them even more. The file size doesn’t seem to make much difference.
Any help very much appreciated.
Thanks
imac G5 OSX 10.4.10

Sometimes depends on how you encoded it to begin with...
For example:
Starts right away (that's a tag in iWeb to auto play)--
http://web.mac.com/captmench/Site/ZacharyFilms/Entries/2007/9/1_ElmoShirt.html
Loads right away but must click play --
http://web.mac.com/captmench/Site/ThreeBoysMovies/Entries/2007/6/11_Entry1.html
and
Won't register until almost fully loaded
http://web.mac.com/captmench/Site/ZacharyFilms/Entries/2007/8/25_Portion_ofThyself.html
Not sure why the last one is like that other than in previous versions of QT not associated with iWeb08 (that seems to have fixed this)... I had to encode these movies with fast internet play. But then, if I changed the posterframe it would loose that tag and I'd be left with a slow internet play.
How did you encode and is what's happening to you the THIRD option here?
CaptM

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