FCP and DVD Pro burning glitch

Last week I created two files of a 2 1/2 meeting - making 2 files of 1 1/4 hours each. I successfully burned both on to two different DVD's and they both played on computers and DVD players. I did note a typographical error in the titles and repaired that and then went to burn the new file.
The new DVD will only play on the computer and not a DVD player.
I have now run disk utility to see if that will help.
Here's the process I follow:
export to quicktime movie to qt folder. The settings for this are:
"current setting" (Instead of default) When I scroll through the settings there are no settings chosen.
The icon for the exported quicktime movie is not the icon I usually get when doing this process.
When importing the movie to DVD Pro the movie does not appear in the qt folder and it will not import. I can drag and drop onto the DVD Pro window and get the above results.
The file will burn in DVD Pro but will not play on a DVD player.
The files are stored on an external 1.4 TB hard drive.
Thanks for any solutions
Tom

Delete all render files associated with the sequence in question using the Render Manager found in the tools menu. OR select all clips in the timeline window, and right click to UN enalbe them then re enable them. After the following, then just do a couple of undo's to reconnect the sequence to the renders.
Then with the sequence selected in the Browser, choose file/export/using compressor. Select your preset there for the MPEG you need to make.
This will result in the best DVD you can make with Apple's software, and also keeps any render files out of the equation... they can be corrupt at times, and cause problems later.
Jerry
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