DVD from Animations - Help please if you can

We have an 3min animation sequence that needs to be put to DVD.
Animation was created in Maya, it's a 3D building walkthrough, constant movement.
It is supplied as AVI (video track is WRAW) 720x576 (for PAL)
We have placed it on FCP sequence set to Animation, best, millions colours, keyframe every frame.
Sent to compressor - 8Mbps CBR, best motion, GOP size =7 / Structure =IBP, closed.
The resulting M2V looks fine in QT
It also looks fine in DVDSP Simulator
However the DVD created (from an image) both in Apple's DVD player and on set top players looks badly pixelated, grainy and flickery.
Is there something in the make up of the animation that doesn't suit DVD playback? Why wouldn't we see it in the Simulator?
Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks Colin,
I have exported the supplied file as QT movies using different QT Codecs, DV PAL, Animation, Motion JPEG, also DV stream. If the option is there I have set the field order to Lower first. I have also imported the supplied AVI to FCP onto sequences with differing compression settings as above. All produce the same effect.
I have exported the AVI from QT as an image sequence, once as is and once with the deinterlace ticked in movie properties and imported each image as a frame to FCP onto a DV PAL timeline, this you would think would work around any issue of field order and behave as the sequence settings dictate? I get the same result, the final DVD image looks fine in DVD Player, unless you UNTICK "deinterlace" (which is wierd in itself), then it flickers badly, as does a DVD written from the image.
The best result I have had so far is following your instructions (thanks) in another post for 24fps NTSC, the final DVD was not flickering anywhere as badly but motion overall was a bit jittery. Is there a work around for animation like this with PAL do you know?
Also - maybe this might be a clue?
When I have the clip looking fine in FCP as a DV clip or image sequence on a DV timeline, with the play line stopped or running, the Canvas ONLY looks good at 100%, anything smaller or larger creates this striping moire effect on the image, visible even with the play line in stop.

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