DVD stops playing mid-way

I'm stumped. I'm trying to troublehoot a problem a co-worder is having where they authored a 17 min. DVD that that simply stops playing suddenly in a standalone DVD player right at the 5 minute mark. Captured and edited DV video in FCP. There were initially some offline clips and unrendered clips when I looked at it, but I deleted or rendered all those. No go. I even tried exporting the whole sequence as a QT, re-imported, re-encoded and burned and it still stops right at 5:00. Strange. Plays fine in the DVD SP simulator, but the burned disc won't play on the Mac or in a player. We're using our usual reliable Verbatim media. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Doug

Thanks for the replies, but I don't think its any of those usual suspects. Total length is 17 minutes or something like that. 7.0 CBR MPEG-2 with 224 kbps Dolby 2.0. No labels. We're thinking there's something wrong with the drive because apparently he's had similar trouble with other projects recently. But I wanted to make sure there wasn't something simple in the software we're missing.
Doug

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