Bunk DVD's?

I'm using iDVD to make a copy of my mother-in-law's vacation films. They were imported to iMovie HD and saved as Quicktime Movies.
I plopped them into iDVD and setup a fancy schmancy menu where she could access all of them.
I burn the DVD and get no notification that anything got borked along the way.
The movies all play fine alone on my computer.
You put the DVD in a set top box and about 5 of the 11 refuse to load. On my DVD player I get "This disk failed to load" and kicked out to the AV screen with the Player logo on it.
Anyone have ANY ideas as to what could be messing up these DVD's?
I don't think it's my DVD player as I'm having the same issue on my $250 DVD player that she's having on her $20 Wal-Mart one.

please tell us what media you are using and who makes it?
I recommend verbatim or maxell DVD-R and burning from a disc image (from the file menu in iDVD) at 4x or slower. Use apple's disc utilities or toast to lower the burn speed and you should be fine provided you also use the recommended media/s.

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