Burning From a Disc Image Problems??

I recently purchased iDVD 5. The best feature in the new iDVD for me is the ability to save my projects to disc image which lets me keep just the disc image on my hard drives with a file size of roughly 3-4 GB. This saves me a TON of space as I was having to save all of the self contained movie files along with the DVD projects in order to burn more copies for my clients in the future.
My concern is that burning these extra copies of my projects for my clients with disk utility is not as "solid" a way to create DVDs as it would be to simply burn all the copies I may need directly from iDVD.
Is this true?
Also, I have never been able to verify any disk that I burned from a disk image using disk utility. These disks play fine on my new Sony DVD player, but I have had some complaints from clients that the disks skip and don't play perfectly.
What could be causing this problem?
If I can play these disks on my home DVD player even though my computer can't verify the burn, should I be concerned?
Is the inability to verify a problem with my burner?
Pete

Len,
Others have had the verify "problem." I NEVER verify.
Really? Then I don't need to verify? My burning process goes to this automatically, I think. How do I stop it?
BTW, I did install Tiger, no problem, installed FCE and made a very short movie, only one transition, no added audio, but burned with iDVD just great! It takes some adjusting, but I am getting the hang of it, and it hasn't been too hard to learn yet
I think I will use iMovie--> for my photos/videos to DVD projects for a while, but when I get to mostly videos and all digital photos, I think I will go back to FCE (or whenever I have lots of time to be REALLY creative)
PS. I'm SURE you ARE younger than I am! I'm like Old Toad...we're older than dirt!

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