DVD Production/Compressor/Archiving - Format?

I've spent a significant amount of time in the last few days on the boards, trying to come up with an answer for this... And while I'm much more educated, I haven't found someone with the exact answer.
The quick background... We are new to FCP and DVDSP by about 4 months. We are a public school channel, producing video about the good things going on in the district. Our features are mostly short, 2-3 mins, with some longer applications. We had been using an avid, playing in real time to a Canopus Amber card in another PC. The file this would make would be a MPEG-2 that we send to our MVP-2000 to air. We were also able to use this file to burn to DVD using Nero (NOT my choice, but it was easy, and all we had), and for archival purposes
With our new G5, we are starting to use it for DVD produciton. DVD studio Pro is MUCH better than Nero.
Yet, I'm having a hard time grasping what I need to do to make the video look good. From FCP, I went to Compressor, and chose the "Best Quality, DVD 90 mins" setting. This gave my settings VBR two pass, Avg. 6.2, Max 7.7, Best motion estimation. The result? Crap. A lot of artifacting.
This seems pretty consistent with what I'm reading in other user's experiences. So I tried some settings, and the best one I found was using compressor to do a One Pass, 7.2 bit rate, GOP 7, Best motion estimation.
Yet, this setting is only video, then I have another for audio (obviously...) So I have two files in the end. Not a big deal for DVD production. And they are relatively small, both files totaling about 130 MB for three-ish mins.
I also tried to avoid compressor, using Export-Quicktime Movie in Final Cut. Then, in DVD SP, telling the encoder to use One pass, 7.2, Best motion estimation. This setting also appeared to work well. And it is nice because I have a quicktime movie file that I can use for multiple things. I can send it to air, I can send it to DVD and DVD SP encodes it properly, AND I can archive the file to disc, AND if I drop it right back into FCP, it's right there, no rendering or anything. Yet, the file is nearly 3 times the size, just under 400MB. Obviously because it's uncompressed.
SO........ My question becomes... Is there anyone out there with a similar workflow? I like having the quicktime file, simply because there is then ONE file that I have to deal with, and ONE version can do multiple things. Yet, the file size is rather large, and if we do anything longer than a few minutes, that's gonna be one big file...
Suggestions on how to export from FCP into a format that will work for these different applications?
Thanks everyone... Hope I've explained my situation thoroughly enough....

Right about the separate tracks. The nice thing is about the QT file, is that DVD SP separates that out for me, and I kinda like that.
Good to know about DVD SP having a tendancy to crash. I haven't seen it do this yet, but good to know it's out there.
Yea, I see there is a lot more control in compressor than DVD SP. Yet, if I can do a simple QT movie and have DVD SP encode it, it helps my workflow a bit, only having one step to encode for archive, DVD, and air.
So let me ask this... The reason I like having one file to "do it all" is because it seems to make it easy. Encoding with the canopus before, we would have that MPEG file on our PC, and we could archive those to CD every so often. If someone comes back to us in a few months and says "Hey, can I get a DVD of that Show Choir performance", I have most likely ditched the media from my drive. So all I have to do is open my database to find the CD it's on, get that disc, and import the file back onto the computer, and burn using Nero, and it's finished.
Keep in mind that we don't burn a copy of every performance/story to it's own DVD. If we did that, and someone wanted a copy in 3 months, we could just dub that disc. Yet, we don't do that because we will get requests for certain stories to be on the same disc.
We also archive everything we do to full size DV CAM tapes. So, yes, we could re-import the finsihed video when someone wants a copy of something, but why do that if we can already have a digital file (Our MPEG file) on a CD already.
So, I suppose my question becomes... If I want to stay using the same workflow of having one file to work with, do I just have to get used to the fact that my QT files will be huge? Or is there a way in File-Export-Using QT conversion that I can shrink that file by half or two thirds and not loose a lot of quality?
Hope that makes sense. Thanks!

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