DVD project blinks, pixelates and freezes.

Hello there, greetings from Mexico! First time poster on this forum.
I've been attempting to compile a few projects with Spanish subtitles with DVD-SP4, using three tracks:
1. Video .m2v file.
2. Audio .ac3 file.
3. Subtitle .stl file.
The projects build fine and play fine within Apple's DVD Player, so I burn them either on Memorex 4.7 GB DVD-Rs or on Verbatim 8.5 GB DVD+R DLs. I usually burn with either Toast or Popcorn.
However, when I try to play them on my DVD player (a Sony DVP-NS315), all projects have numerous random, brief blackouts, some pixelation snafus and just plain freezes that last for up to a minute.
I've searched this forum for a similar issue, but could find none, so if someone's been through this, could you please give me a few pointers on the subject?
Thank you for your time.
2 GHz PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3) 1 GB DDR SDRAM
2 GHz PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3) 1 GB DDR SDRAM

Well, I tried re-encoding the project with Single Pass CBR and a bit rate of 7.0 mbps, and that didn't work, the screen keeps blinking randomly on and off. Retried it with 6.9 mbps, same result.
I asked a friend to let me test my project on his new, top-of-the-line DVD player, which was an unmitigated disaster, his machine did not blink, but completely froze every couple of minutes. Then I tried the same DVD on a friend's iBook, which only froze in two places, but those two places crashed the Apple DVD Player app. By the way, the iBook is running Panther 10.3.9.
I'm thinking, maybe my dismal results have something to do with the fact that I recently upgraded from Tiger 10.4.2 to 10.4.3.
Could it be that the upgrade screwed up something within DVD SP4, maybe I should trash and re-install DVD SP?
Furthermore, this summer I installed KDE running on Fink, but due to some issues I trashed the whole thing recently and am about to re-install while running the latest version of XTools.
Could my trashing of all the Unix stuff be behind my DVD SP woes?
It may be worth mentioning that I regularly run Disk Utility to repair permissions.
Sorry for all this mess. But hey, what's the point of life without a challenge here and there?
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