IDVD burning to DVD media versus Image file subsequently written to DVD

Can someone explain why I am experiencing trouble with DVD's which are produced from copying an image using disk utility after I use iDVD to create an image of the DVD projects, but when I write an iDVD project directly to DVD, the same problems do not arise?
The problems are tiling, locking up in standard DVD players and an inability of the DVD player to recognize the DVD as a viewable DVD. Note that the image files and DVDs derived from it are capable of being read in a computer, but perform badly or not at all in standard DVD players for TV.

I have tried the slowest burn speed and use TDK discs. I have wondered if it might be the drive itself. Oddly enough, when the DVD is written from iDVD there are lead in and lead out processes which may not be associated with an image file, though I'm not sure about the latter.
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