HDV out of sync in DVD

I have an HDV Pal Project that plays fines on my computer, but when we burn it to DVD, it slips out of sync randomly.
Details...
We captured the HDV material through the camera (Sony Zu1), onto a Lacie firewire 400 drive on a Dual 1.0 G4 (1 gig of Ram). Editng went fine. We upgraded to a Dual 1.8 G5 and used the Lacie through the firewire 800 port.
I exprort the 2 hour sequence as a QT movie from FCP and then move it into compressor. All I check is Bottom (for field order) and make the audio an AC3 file.
I then build the project in DVD SP and then burn it in Toast 7.01 with Taiyo Yuden discs.
When I play the DVD, after an hour or so , it will go a few seconds out of sync and then within 10 seconds, slip back into sync (and repeats randomly). If I go to another DVD player, it may or may not happen. In my DVD player (all of my DVD players are modern PAL DVD players) if it goes out of sync, I stop the disc and then start it back at the same point, and it will be in sync.
ANy thoughts
Final Cut Studio 5
Dual 1.8 G5, 2 gigs RAM, OS 10.4.6
Lacie 500 gig Firewire 400/800 drive
2 Seqeuences of 2 hours each

Try opening the project file on the G5, and export the finished sequence using File/Export/Using Compressor... use one of the stock presets... then burn the DVD in DVD SP using the resulting MPEG files.
Jerry

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