Setting up posterframe with quicktime?

Hello,
I have:
•Quicktime Pro Version 7.6.4 (518.35)
•Dreamweaver CS4
I'm trying to set up a poster frames for my quicktimes on my site. Right now its just defaulted to the first frame which is black. I want it to preview the section of the video i want and then click play and have it start from the begining like how you can choose a thumbnail with youtube.
When I open my .mov I dragged the play header to where I wanted the poster frame to be.
I then went to view>set poster frame, and saved.
When I clicked on the .mov in the finder, the poster frame did show up in the right hand panel! But then when I opened it, it started from that frame which I don't want.
I want to be able to preview that certain section of the video, and then play from the beginning.
I then dragged the playhead to the beginning and saved. When I went to view>go to poster frame it did go back to that poster frame so it did indeed save that spot.
But - when I preview it in the finder its still black and the first frame. - And, when I preview in dreamweaver to safari, its black and the first frame.
Basically when I open the file and go view>go to posterframe it does go to it... now I just have to get it to fully work.
What should I do?
Thankyou

is it possible to set up a preview pic for the web with quicktime doing this poster frame technique or do i have to render out a seperate image file?

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