DVD won't play since upgrade to iDVD6

I have used iDVD5 for 3 years to create DVDs (with videos edited in Final Cut) and these DVD would play in my portable TV/DVD combo and in my home DVD player. I recently upgraded to iLife06 which upgraded my iDVD to iDVD to 6.03. Now, when I burn a DVD, it will not play in my TV/DVD combo unit nor in my DVD player! Nothing has changed on my system except the upgrade to iLife'06. Any help would be appreciated. These DVD's DO play on my MAC and on another portable DVD player that I have. However, a client said that my DVD will not play on her Windows system. I sell DVDs as part of my business and this has to be corrected! I never had this problem before the upgrade. Please help!!

Hi Gail
Are you able to first create a disc image and then use Apple's DVD Player Application to open this disc image? Let us know if it plays correctly directly from the disc image. If it does, then it may be you have a media issue. What kind of media did you burn to? Try using Verbatim or Maxell DVD-R and burning from a disc image at 4x or slower using apple's Disk Utilities or Toast.
If the above fails to resolve this issue then repair permissions on your Hard Drive. Also drag and drop the plist for iDVD to the trash. Looks like this:
com.apple.iDVD.plist
Empty the trash and Restart the computer.
Lastly, make sure to run apple's software updater for iDVD6 as well as for QuickTime.
Good luck and hope this is Helpful.
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