DVD Identifier and iDVD 6.0.2

Okay, so I've been authoring DVDs in iDVD for work. They play fine and dandy in every device we've slapped them in. I could not be happier in that regard.
Here's where the weird thing comes up: when we put the DVD in a Dell laptop with the PowerDVD DVD player software, it attempts to find the label art for the DVD. That would be okay, but it keeps bringing up the artwork for various commercial Star Trek DVDs. Two separate projects both came up with different Star Trek DVDs (one had Chekhov, and the other Harvey Mudd).
I really would like to have that not happen. It's got to be something with the DVDs' identifier, but iDVD doesn't give us control over that.

Every collection of files that is burned onto a DVD or a CD (or a CD-ROM, I believe) has a hidden numerical identifier that is burned onto every copy of that collection of data as part of the disk's total information. There is a very large database on the internet (called "Gracenote") that contains all of the album names, and the names of the songs on the tracks of those albums, for just about all of the commercially-produced CD's in the world. When you insert a CD into your computer, iTunes finds the CD's identifier, checks it against Gracenote's database, and then displays the album and track names on your computer screen. Those names are not encoded onto the CD itself. Years ago, the program called "Apple CD Player" would play your CD's on your computer, but you had to type in the album name and the names of the song tracks yourself at least once, and the computer would file that information away on your hard drive with that CD's identifier. When you played that CD in your computer again, the Apple CD Player program would read the CD's identifier, pull up the album information and display it on the screen. I have a recently-burned CD of the soundtrack of a scene that I originally recorded on video. I transferred the soundtrack of that video to a CD to archive it for later use with some effects processing. When I now put that CD in my computer, iTunes reads the CD's identifier and thinks that it is an album called "Deep Moody Progy Stuff" by a group called "Russian Max." I imagine that the Dell laptop mentioned above is doing a similar thing with the identifier of that DVD.
iMac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

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