DVD Studio Bitrate Too High

I am running DVD Pro Studio 4 and I am having a problem in trying to master a DVD.
To give you a little history. I made this same DVD a year ago with all of the same video assets, but I am adding one more video. I am compressing the video and audio in Compressor, using the same settings as I did on the previous videos, but I keep getting this error.
I have recompressed the video as much as I could, and I have recompressed the audio files as aac and also tried m4v.
I though it may have been in the new video I brought in because I took out the audio I still got the same error. So, I deleted everything from the new video, video and audio, and now it is saying the bitrate is too high on a video that didn't have a too high a bitrate last year.
I have tried putting this on a DL DVD, but it say I still have a high bit rate.
There is only 3.7gig of data, so this should work on a regular DVD.
I am pulling out my hair trying to figure this out. I don't know what else to do. I am a web designer that has fallen into this work, and video is not my background, so I don't have a lot of experience to draw on.
Can someone please help me. I need to get this DVD soon!
Thanks,
Steve

Ugg, this is what I get when I type a message when I am tired
On the audio formats, I meant to say that I tried ac3 and m4a. In the past I have gotten both to work.
As far as the video I am using One pass CBR with an average bitrate of 6.2mbps
I have also tried one pass avg. bit rate of 6 max bit rate of 7.5
actually there are 5 video, three of which the videos are being used twice (once as a music video with and without vocal) with a total run time of 25:10.
I also have 1.39gig of ROM data on the disc as well.
I ran this through the calculator, but I am not sure what this is telling me.

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