Change from NTSC to PAL

I've made a video DVD (wide screen) with Premiere and Encore. I want to make a version for Europe, and therefore change to PAL (and therefore change the pixel dimensions). For some reason I can't find how to do this NTSC dropdown is greyed out, and I can't find presets for PAL with the change in dimensions. Do I have to make this change in Premiere or in Encore, and can you please tell me precisely where this setting is.
Perhaps the problem is that my computer's DVD Burner won't burn a PAL disk?
Thanks
kdoc

Boy oh boy oh boy I CANNOT believe anyone has not mentioned IFOedit program for this poor person!
No matter what you do, unless you originate video in PAL, it will look slightly funky in any conversion. That being said the simplest and probably best way to convert an NTSC dvd to PAL is to simply chage the instruction code in the DVD for the DVD Player itself. You'll have to download the free IFOEDIT program and follow the instructions here:
http://www.digital-digest.com/articles/Convert_PAL_NTSC_DVD_page1.html
I hope you have made an image folder instead of having Encore automatically make the dvd from the original edited file. If not, just track down DVD Decrypter and run your NTSC DVD video through that to extract all the data onto your hard drive. Then follow the instructions in the link carefully for IFOEDIT and then re-burn a new Video DVD (Not Data!) in Nero or Roxio for example. . Unfortunately there will be no way to test it other than throwing it into an NTSC dvd player and having it say it can't read the disc. That's why you just have to follow the instructions carefully and make sure you change everything you're supposed to when editing the IFO file.

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