Thanks guys.  I have learned alot just from you guys input.  After some investigating, I used Modo to render my original animation and as I stated plays beautifully on the qt player so I'm not sure about the compression because in modo you have option to make mov or image sequence.  That was another question I have.  Is it best to render out a image sequence and then turn that into an animation?  If show is BMP the best format to render an image sequence in?  One of my programs only has the option to render out an image sequence.  And the site I uploaded this particular animation to does change to flash from what I can tell.  So the compression done by the program to get in mov and then the compression of the web site to flash really degraded the animation.  Here is a link for you to have a look to see.  Hope this info might be useful to others also.  Thanks again.

http://www.brickfish.com/Pages/VideosSeries/VideoView.aspx?qsi=16428044