Color Saturation Problem (help appreciated!)

Hi.
I'm in Spain and making DVD's from footage shot on NTSC cameras (a bad idea in the first place, I know).
At the moment I have no way of verifying my results on an NTSC tv, so.... My question is that the majority (but strangely, not quite all) of the DVD's I've produced, when watched on a normal PAL television, have EXTREMELY over-saturated colors. They are so saturated that they're flattened and bleedy so that subtle textures aren't discernible.
Aside from that, the image appears stuttery and jumpy. This makes sense to me, being an NTSC DVD on a PAL tv, but should the COLORS be so drastically affected also?
I've done five project here. 4 of them look stuttery and with bad colors, but 1 of them looks fine. This is the mystery. Is there some encoding setting that I'm overlooking that can reduce the problem?? Is this a normal symptom of NTSC seen on PAL equipment?
I've tried on various different PAL tv's and players. no change.
(this problem occurs with both 24p and regular NTSC footage. I use DVDSP4 and FCP4)
THanks for your time!!
powerbook 1.5GHz 15" Mac OS X (10.4.1)

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One more thing to keep in mind, my color bars also show this problem with these colors as well as shot footage of these facilities. There are tall red poles in the shots and everything displays fine except for the red pole color looks like it's glowing off the pole to the left.
PLEASE tell me there is a solution to this.

I have tried Degaussing, using filters, changing cables, and testing other monitors and systems on these monitors, everthing I can think of to solve the issue. Is it FCPo or is it the monitors?... or is it a signal strength thing. Can monitors and projectors shift color when the signal is read from a DVD or Mini DV Deck? Is there a fequency difference (Ie: 75mgz or 80 mgz) that might be causing the shift in some monitors and not so badly in others. But if this was true, how would some DVD's (like Baby Einstein DVDs that use really bright colors) display red and blue perfect using these same player and monitor, while my projects is shifting color? Doesn't that rule out the signal from the DVD player if other DVD's do not have this issue?
I have uploaded the original art used, an exported .jpg file from the FCP timeline and sample photos of 2 different monitors to show to show this problem as best I can. http://www.smmlv.com/testproject/
Someone out there must have had this problem before. There's no way a color shift problem like this with Mini DV has gone on this long without someone seeing it.
One last thing about what I have tried... I do understand that with editing in Mini DV instead of uncompressed or HD video I lose a bit of resolution (4:2:2) and I see this compression occuring in some of the areas in the video where these problems persist. But, I did remake the art and rerender this project in an 8bit uncompressed settings and then displayed that up on the screen and I get the same color shift. I keep going in circles trying to find the culprit that is causing the delema.
PLEASE HELP! There are large tours going through our facilities daily and the large screen projector is displaying this problem as well. Let's just hope they don't notice and that their TV's at home or office does not display it on our final DVD's made.

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