Compressor 3.5 is changing my framerate.

Hi smart folks,
So a friend of mine asked me to put together an acting reel for her. She's had some success and has been on a few films and TV shows, so to get me her material she gave me copies of the comercial DVDs.
I've been pulling scenes off with Handbreak to a m4v format, pulling them into Compressor(v3.5) and converting to prores (high quality for progressive) and then droping them into FCP 7. (for the audio I break it from the original m4v with quicktime and use itunes to convert it to aif and then remerge in FCP)
This had been working fine, the m4v's would come out of handbreak 23.976fps and get chaged to 29.97fps by Compressor and that's fine. I can work with that. But one of the disks (of a multi disk dvd set!) wont play ball. when I pull a scene off of it both quicktime player and vlc player tell me that it's 23.976. HOWEVER when it goes into compressor, compressor says it is 19.97fsp. and the subsequent prores file stays that way and then it's all kinds of trouble in FCP and i can't resync my audio.
Please someone, tell me what I'm doing wrong here. How do I fix it??
Thank you
Tim

Have you tried setting the frame rate manually in Compressor.
or
Try MPEG Steamclip and see if that works for you:
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