DVD Quicktime movie won't playback properly on G4 Powerbook

After authoring a movie in imovie hd and saving it as a dv Quicktime file and burning it to a dvd on my G4 Powerbook, the dvd freezes on the first couple of frames and just stutters forward. However, when I play the same dvd on my desktop imac G5 with identical software, the dvd plays back just fine. Any suggestions? I've tried discussions with Quicktime people with no results. The dvd drives on both computers are virtually identical, softwares identical...the only real difference is one is a G4 and one is a G5. Could that make that big a difference?

Tried reinstalling Quicktime and it didn't make a difference. maybe the problem isn't with Quicktime at all. I tried burning a dvd with the same Quicktime DV files on my imac, thinking it might be the superdrive in my laptop. the dvd plays back fine on the imac, but stutters and stops on the laptop. I can't believe it's just the difference between the G4 and G5 or the difference between the Matshita DVD-R UJ-816 in the powerbook or the Matshita DVD-R UJ 825 in the imac.
Anyone out there have any other suggestions? Some articles I've been reading lately suggest that it may be the media and that the two dvd drives respond differently to the type of DVDs I've been using (Maxell DVD-R 8x). Maybe I should try TDK or Apple?

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