?Best 'simple' format to import assets into DVDStudio?

I was told to output my FCP4 movie with compressor and do it in two parts: video only then do audio separately. So I've got an mpeg2 video file and an aiff file to bring into DVD Studio Pro (3).
However, when I lay the files into my track (in DVD Studio Pro), I've noticed a synch problem. There doesn't appear to be any way to lock the video and audio together as they were in FCP.
Am I missing something simple, or was compressing video and audio into separate files a bad idea?
Lisa
PS. I'm really sorry if this is a stupid question. I have looked thru the manuals and can't find a simple instruction about getting movies out of FCP4 and into DVD Studio.

I don't have dvdsp 4 or compressor 2. But I think we have that a.pack thing. But, before I try that, can you help me with a more basic thing..
I'm still concerned about actually dragging the assets into the timeline. When I drag my audio file (whatever format) and my video file to the track window DOES DVDSP3 "KNOW" THAT THE CLIPS ARE CONNECTED AND SHOULD LINE UP EXACTLY? In FCP you can drag a clip and it automatically separates the video and the audio tracks and keeps them in synch (unless you bump them!!!). But, DVDSP doesn't seem to have a way to take the two separate assets and keep them locked together (unless it just does it automatically). But it sure is easy to bump the audio asset and get the whole timeline out of synch.
Then from what I can tell from the other discussions, there are issues with PAL & NTSC and the frame rates and audio bit rates and all kinds of other confusing things . I guess that shows up further down your movie as things all get out of whack. I'm assuming that your response address those issues.
Is there a way to import an asset that is Sound and Vision from one file and let DVDSP split them out to the right tracks like FCP does? Or all all DVDSP assets supposed to be video or audio only.
Thanks again!
Lisa

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