HD to SD DVD encode problems!

Hey guys,

hoping someone can help > have searched the web and asked fellow video friends, so far have not found a solution.

I shot a talking head on the Sony EX1, 1080 25p. Studio shoot, not much movement.

Edit in FCP 6.0.3

Out to DVD Studio Pro via compressor.

Now the problem is the flickering of the talents hands / eyes and mouth on screen. I have tried multiple "fixes" including ken stone's fix and also similar fixes of creating a 720x576 seq, rendering in proRes, progressive, as well as various settings in Compressor.

The thing that is weird about it all is that the encoded file is perfect. The mpg2 looks awesome on the computer, but once I burn the DVD and put the DVD back into the computer, there is pixelation on the talents eyes / hands / mouth ... just like on the TV.

So what im now thinking is maybe something is going wrong during the burning process, since the mpeg2 is fine but only on the DVD itself it looks crap.

Im on a macbook pro, 2.4 GHz, intel core duo, 4 gig ram OS 10.5.2

Any ideas???? im truely stuck.