Cheers for the tips Grus,
I had another go at uploading it to youtube, this time I followed the instructions for maintaining some quality lol - I put a link to the better one there in the info
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBTxebv9Y30
looking forward to your youtube debut Ken
I got some more very nice responses (mostly private offlist emails) from around the globe on a couple of small yahoo groups to the better quality version - beaming!

also shouldnt of slagged off that mac editing proggie before updating the fresh version