Creating Master Image Best Practices

Greetings!
Soon, I will be sending a master disk to a fulfillment company for mass replication.
I have already sold about 350 copies of my DVD (produced with Encore), which I burn on my computer (Alienware, Windows 7), and then package and ship to my customers.
I
I've had one guys who said it "skipped really bad", I've had a couple customers who get an "invalid or unknown file" error when they tried to play it on a DVD player, and one guy who couldn't play on a computer because of a "missing DVD decoder".
4 or 5 errors out of 350 isn't bad, but I'm wondering if there's anything I need to know, in order to make my NTSC DVD as universally viewable as possible?
I know not to exceed an 8mb/s bitrate, but other than that, is there anything I should know or do?
Thank you!
Pat

I did indeed use Taiyo-Yudens. Since I bought 500 blanks, I got a good price on solid media.
I'm mostly wondering if there's a software 'best practice' I need to follow, since my fulfillment center will be handling most of the heavy lifting with the hardware and media.
Thanks, video pros..!
Pat

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FIDEL,
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