Same SWF plays great in Flash but badly in QuickTime!

Hi,
I have created a movie in Flash that has a lot of bitmap images and published it as a .swf file. I am able to open it in QuickTime but the image quality is drastically reduced. When I open the same file in Flash Player it looks great.
Why does QuickTime reduce the quality so much and how can I avoid it? I need it to work good in QuickTime because I plan to import the movie into iScreensaver application that uses QuickTime to make screensavers.

Why does QuickTime reduce the quality so much and how can I avoid it?
Not sure it can be avoided at this point in QT. It is only an assumption, but I would assume the artifact pattern that bothers you is a product of the scaling algorithm as applied to the compressed data and rendered during playback.

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> features
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>
>
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