YouTube App, No HD (higher resolution)?

I just bought my LG IQ and right away tried using YouTube which of course opened Media Player every time I tried to stream a video. I ended up installing Opera but then spoke with a TELUS tech and he told me to use Skyfire instead. I got Skyfire and loved it, however I have to keep ignporing the youtube message to watch the video. The problem then came up that I couldnt watch videos on Skyfire maximized to my screen. So I decided to try the new YouTube App from:

m.youtube.com/app

This App has worked great but it is supposed to read your phones stats and automatically upload videos to the maximum resolution your phone can handle. In my case it does not and there is no option to up the resolution on videos Im wanting to stream. So I found a thread that linked me to a  youtube site that asked a series of 7 questions to detect my phones stats which also did nothing.

I know this phone is capable of high resolution videos beyond 480p, so why can my brother watch these videos in higher quality on his HTC Hero with half the resolution of my IQ? This is so frustrating, I simply want to watch youtube videos with the ease of maximizing them, rewinding, fastforwarding, and changing resolutions.

Thanks for the info, maybe I'll try coreplayer. I'm not sure about media player because it never works for me. Media player comes up, it buffers at 0% for a minute and then says stopped. No matter how many times I refresh or hit play it does the same thing. Which is why I was led to all these different apps. Maybe coreplayer will solve my issues... I'll have to at least try.

Would you happen to know how to remove downloaded apps?

just so ur aware opera mobile 10 final is available . plays youtube in browser. havent seen video quality settings yet tho. but the browser itself is slick

Just wanted to chime in here: HTC's latest YouTube app delivers the highest quality I've found, bar none. Of course, it requires so many dependencies that it really needs to be cooked into a ROM
As a heads up, since the eXpo has 480 pixels of vertical resolution in landscape orientation, anything encoded at higher than 480p will be extraneous -- you'll likely be sucking down more bandwidth without seeing any improvement in sharpness.