Hey Noel,
Well I finally got something . . it was not great. It still looked a lot more pixelated than a longer WMV file would look. Not sure how WMV files can look so good , so compressed, and at such long time. But files from Apple can't seem to get the same quality. I know I have to be doing something wrong, because I have a disk full of APPLE commercials from the past to present. Some of them are very long commercials and they are less than 4MB on some of them. But they still look good.
I'll have to go back to the office to see what I did, walk through my steps. But I think I wound up using Compressor and turning them into mpeg1 files through that. It's a bit tedius of a system at first, but once you get the hang of it , you can use it pretty quickly.
I'll reply more later with details, or maybe somebody else will by the time I do.
Adam