Severe frame dropping with Mac QT export.

I've noticed some weird behavior of Quicktime Pro (mac version).
Quicktime(mac) is not able to handle video files exported by QT itself correctly.
Further converting QT MPEG4 videos with QT(mac) will generate choppy videos, which appears to have some frames dropped.
I've prepared a sample video below.
Source: http://bdweb.no-ip.com/documents/qt_sample/source.mp4
Codec: MPEG4/AVC H.264
The above video file can be played back smoothly with QT in both Mac and Windows. However viewing the video frame-by-frame (with mouse scroll) in QT(mac) reveals that QT is dropping about half of the frame.
(say from 10F to 35F, all odd-numbered frames were skipped.)
If the above video is exported again with QT pro in mac, the product will be half of the actual frame rate (half were dropped).
Converted by QT(mac): http://bdweb.no-ip.com/documents/qt_sample/mac.mp4
Converted by QT(win): http://bdweb.no-ip.com/documents/qt_sample/windows.mp4
The video converted under Windows by QT-pro is doing fine, no frame drop was observed.
I've already tried updating QT, reinstalling QT, but no luck.
Does anyone know what would be the cause, and can it be solved?

Yes they are correct now. Their file size is different.
Windows version: 9,248,985 bytes
Link:http://bdweb.no-ip.com/documents/qt_sample/windows.mp4
Mac version: 9,963,051 bytes
Link: http://bdweb.no-ip.com/documents/qt_sample/mac.mp4
I have no idea why they have such a huge discrepancy, but on second thought, it isn't THAT strange when I saw the same software encodes the video in such a different manner. Strange still!
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