Interlace flicker/DVD burning/toast solution?

First, I'd like to thank all those posts regarding jaggies, etc. They've been most helpful. I have been doing a project with only high def stills and photoshop images, all of which are 1920 x 1080 or more. Thank you for the heads-up about not letting imove render before export. Yikes.
I took Len Goff's advice and saved a disc image, then burned the img file and played it back on my imac. I loved it. It looked great. Out of about 450 images, only 10 perhaps flickered, but it's pretty minimal. I can certainly live with it, and it looked rather high def to me. Of course, I saw noticeable degeneration from imovie, but until we get high def burners....
I have three questions. First, will toast 7 do any better job burning than disk utility? Will toast do away with the flicker altogether?
Second, will the flicker be worse on televisions? Is my imac screen interlaced (I'm guessing yes.) Or is the flicker on my mac as bad as it's going to get? I can test on a television in my office tomorrow, but that's only one tv out of how many?
Third, why did I burn a disc image anyway? What did that do for me?
Does it yield better quality than just burning straightaway with idvd? Or was that just to catch any encoding issues?
Thanks for your help.

will toast 7 do any better job burning than disk utility?
No, but you get more burning options with Toast.
Will toast do away with the flicker altogether?
If you do the slideshows in Toast, then yes, I believe it more blurs the images so they don't flicker.
See also:
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCDon_aMacintosh.html#slideshow
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCDon_aMacintosh.html#interlacing
Is my imac screen interlaced (I'm guessing yes.)
No, only TV screens are interlaced. That's why many interlacing problems are invisible on a computer screen.
why did I burn a disc image anyway? What did that do for me? Does it yield better quality than just burning straightaway with idvd? Or was that just to catch any encoding issues?
It only separates the encoding process from the burning process. This may be beneficial when trobleshooting or if you want to burn the actual DVD later, and maybe avoid burning coasters. Disk images also allow you to easily burn more copies. But IMO if everything goes OK, it doesn't really matter.

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