DVD-9 - DVDSP v3 or v4?

About to make my first DVD-9 and we are currently using DVDSP 3. But I've read about issues that DVDSP has had in the past with DVD-9s and I wondered if upgrading to v4 is worth while to save us some hassles?
Thanks

Rob,
Not to throw a wrench into the system right now, but i have been having bad DLT's with 3.0.2.
It "was" working perfectly. I have DVD SP 4 and i dont want to use it yet because 3.02 was so good.
But all of a sudden i have been having a lot of DVD9 projects coming back from the replicator with errors from Eclipse. About 6 of them.
I did the DLT's on an old G4/AdaptecSCSI with 3.02 and had problems so i thought it was the SCSI card or SCSI cable and/or G4 altogether.
So i did the DLT's on my G5/ATTO UL4S SCSI with 3.02 and still some problems.
I have resorted to using my FR1SX Firewire to SCSI converter to see if this solves the problem.
I have to bring in the man Trai Forrest to help me out with my bad DLT's.
So i think 3.02 was great for a while for me until just like 3 weeks ago.
I have no idea why its all of sudden doing bad DLT's.
Software?
Hardware?
Bad DLT media?
Seems pretty weird from my end because i have had 3.02 work great for a while.
Some of the errors from Eclipse said the build was bad. So why all of sudden was 3.02 doing bad builds on the projects.
I have done hundreds of replicated DVD's and used the same process for a few years now.
Some had to do with CSS turned on i think.
Some had bad sectors.
So i did all new DLT's with CSS OFF and i have got 1 DVD9 project that was bad out of about 6 DVD's that were DVD9's that i redid.
Anyways..
I might even check out DVD SP 4 since i have it.
I just keep reading about about the DLT issues with "out of space" errors, etc.
Geez, maybe i should try some new software.
Brian

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