MPEG-2 quality played on a monitor

Hi,
I have burnt a DVD using Encore 1.0. When the files are exported from Encore into a folder on the harddrive all the files including the VOB and IFO files all look fine and as they should do.
However when I burn exactly the same project onto an actual DVD the VOP file looks as it should but the IFO files look washed out, with the blacks being too light. This is the case when played on a computer monitor.
Unfortunately I'm not able to test it on a TV screen but I have heard that the quality for DVD MPEG-2s does not look correct when played on a computer.
Does anyone know if this is true and if it is the norm. If this is the case does anyone know of any way around this so that it can play properly on a monitor?
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks

The monitor isn't calibrated. What I meant by the VOB and IFO files is that when I play the video from the VOB file it looks as it should however if I play the video from the IFO file it looks washed out.
If it is a problem with the IRE levels shouldn't it look incorrect on all the files and look incorrect when the original MPEG-2 is rendered and not just from the IFO playback.
Also, before I outputted the MPEG-2 from after effects I set the levels to 16-235. Does that mean that the IFO files make it play from 16-235? Is there not a way to make it look correct for playback on both TV screen and monitor?
Thanks

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Thanks for the follow up.
Missing in this equation were the version of Premiere Elements that you were using and the computer operating system on which it was running. But...
The deed is done. But.....Until now and after you went ahead and moved to version 12, we now learn what version of Premiere Elements you were using. We still do not know the computer operating system involved.
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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:50:15 -0700
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    Re: HELP....AVCHD / MPEG files not playing correctly!
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