Illustrator "Save for Web & Devices" returning crappy, pixelated images

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Published on 2011-06-23T14:41:57Z Indexed on 2012/06/24 9:18 UTC
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I'm trying to create a nice title for my webpage... a big white title to sit on a black background. I'm using Illustrator to do so. When I create it, it looks nice, but when I hit "save for web & devices", it comes out looking like a pixelated piece of crap on the site. Is there some setting I need to change to make Illustrator save a higher resolution image? Thanks

EDIT I understand, from looking at some other posts, that this may be a result of "posterization" or "dither", but this is only a plain white image so I don't how this results in a colors problem. (I could be completely misinterpreting these terms)

EDIT Figured version might be important... I'm using CS5.1

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