Text quality on livetype

i just made a project and my text that i made in live type isn't the best looking quality. it's kind of pixelated and fuzzy. it especially shows up when i have it finished and on my dvd i made. what settings to i need to change in order to make the text to appear more clear and crisp?
Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I've checked everything I can think of and the only thing that may help is field dominance (edit - project properties - field dominance). In both our project files there is no field dominance selected but following this test from the LT help:
To test the field rendering order: 1 Start a new LiveType project. 2 Choose Edit > Project Properties. 3 In the Project Properties dialog, do the following: aChoose an NTSC or PAL setting from the Presets pop-up menu. bSelect the box next to Render Fields. c Do not select Upper First. In this case, you are rendering lower field first. dClick OK. 4 In the Inspector, do the following: aType a capital “O” in a system font on Track 1. bIncrease its size to fill most of the Canvas. c Color the letter red, then choose black as your background color. 5 Apply a fast-moving effect to the track, such as Jumpy, in the Caricature effect category in the Media Browser. 6 In the Timing tab, set the speed of the effect to 100 percent. 7 Choose File > Render Movie. 8 Enter lower.mov as the file name in the Save As field, then click Save. 9 Now change the color of the capital “O” to blue. Select Upper First in the Project Properties dialog. 10 Render this second movie, naming it upper.mov. 11 Play back both movies on an NTSC monitor. One of the two movies will look distorted; the other movie will play correctly, with sharply defined edges. Whenever you render a LiveType movie for that system, use the settings you used for the undistorted output.
it's the only way I could replicate any pixellation/artefacts. Just replicating your project file, but in PAL, it played thro' perfectly.
The only other thing I can suggest is using the preset
CCIR 601 NTSC sq 4:3 and see if this makes any difference.
Do post back and let me know if any of these work.
Dave.

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