Diminished color quality and jumpy image Adobe CS3 Premiere to Encore DVD

While assembling and editing my individual scenes in Adobe Premiere Pro, and burning to DVD through Adobe Encore. I've experienced the following obstacles:
1.) diminished color quality
2.) jumpy image (it seems to skip just slightly, hard for some people to notice..but I do)
3.) DVD only plays in 1 of 2 DVD players (both are manufactured by Sony)
My encoding is set to NTSC High Quality, but I see no difference when the default NTSC Medium Quality is selected. I still have the same results (1-3). The Video Codec is listed as MainConcept MPEG Video. I am not provided with an option to select another, I suspect this could be an issue. Please advise.
My biggest concerns are 1 & 2. Please advise on how to address. I am using CS3.
Thanks!

What is your SOURCE?
Read Bill Hunt on a file type as WRAPPER http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037?tstart=0
What is a CODEC... a Primer http://forums.adobe.com/thread/546811?tstart=0
What CODEC is INSIDE that file? http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037?tstart=0
What happens if you export from PPro as DV AVI type 2 with 16bit 48khz sound, and then give that AVI to Encore to encode using the Automatic setting to get a best match of file size and fit?
As far as playback... what brand of media and what burn speed? Use Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim for best quality media
Have you tried having Encore create an ISO on hard drive, then using something like the free http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download to do the actual writing... with the slowest possible burn speed?

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