Burnt DVD not recognised on Windows Computer

My wife and I have recently started our own business, and are using 'Disk Utility' to do daily backups of our work onto DVD+RW disks. Every few days we erase the old disks and re-write over them. We have 2 computers an IMac G5 on Tiger and a Laptop on Windows Vista. Due to the nature of the work I often have to use files created on the Mac on the Laptop. I would like to use the previous days back-up disk to transfer the files to the laptop as it is the most hassle free method of transferring the files over, especially when working away from home. This is where the problem starts, the burnt disks are easily read on the iMac, I have checked them several times as I'm paranoid about loosing my work. But when I put the DVD into the Laptop, a pop-up asks me what I want to do with my blank disk. I checked the help files on 'Disk Utility' and they talk about setting the volume format to a microsoft setting but when I erase the DVD that menu is greyed out. What can I do as the only way for me to transfer files at the moment is by using my iPod which takes several transfers to copy everything over, using up a lot of my time.
Regards & Thanks for any responses
John Curwood

Data disks created with Disk Utility are normally Mac format. To read them with Windows you need MacDrive
<http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/>
If you use the Finder to burn the DVD, it will be in both Mac and PC format, and should work with no additional software.

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