Avid to IDVD compression issues

I've been cutting on an Avid then exporting quicktimes to burn dvds in IDVD for it's cool preset menus. I've got everything working, but I'm not satisfied with my picture quality. There seems to be a lot of artifacts and scan type lines that cut horizontally. I've been using H264 compression out of the Avid. My piece is 4min long and it's too large to burn a dvd umcompressed, it comes out to around 5 gigs.
What is the best compression setting for IDVD?

Don't compress out of the Avid. Create a QuickTime Reference Movie and send that to iDVD, assuming that QuickTime can play the .OMF's okay. All my stuff is DV and that works fine. If you absolutely must compress, then use DV. But create a reference movie first and see if QuickTime can play it properly (the aspect ratio will be wrong because it will be 720x480 if DV, 720x486 if 601, and QuickTime will display with square pixels). If QuickTime can play it, iDVD can convert it to MPEG-2 for the DVD. Or so they claim. 8-)
Advice over on the Avid forums seems to be to NOT use the Avid DV codec when transferring to iDVD because of color-space issues (601 vs. RGB or something like that). Also, if you have options for field dominance (I don't remember off hand if you do when setting up a reference movie), go with lower field first.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
(running Avid Xpress Pro 4.6 here...)

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[*The sounds are mostly too long for the amount of time
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timeline, and cut previous sounds off. I'm speculating this
might be a possible
issue. That is, I have say a 5 second sound, which has only 3
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