Final Cut Express 4.0 - BEST export for...

Good evening everyone!
I've finished up the first phase of a project I've been working on.
I'll be now exporting my final cut video ( using Final Cut Express 4.0 ) to a DVD for transport to the client. They will be taking the video and loading it onto some TV displays and they'll be converting it for some web usage.
I'm wondering the BEST quality to export my video from Final Cut Express 4.0 and the BEST file format to use in doing this.
Any one have any comments/suggestions around this?
thank you for your time in advance!
cheers,
Dean

Just testing now... and verified that the .mov files ( quick time files from Final Cut Express 4.0) plays very bad on my Windows machine.
This is the data dvd I burned. I'm accessing the files on the DVD in windows using quicktime player.
the playback is very choppy and at long periods of there there is not video at all. I don't get green lines at the bottom, this is only an iDVD burned DVD for playback in DVD players.
ON my Mac Book Pro ( where I'm doing all of this work ), it plays fine from the storage DVD using quicktime!!!
Hmm... could some issues with my dvd storage software I'm using to burn the data. It's, it's called Toast.
I'm currently moving the exported files from Final Cut Express 4.0 directly to m windows machine to burn. I'll test a DVD burn on the windows machine using Recordnow and get back to you guys.
thanks.
cheers,Dean

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