Is there any hope of my NTSC 3:2 animation looking good on DVD?

Hello. I feel really dumb. Two years ago when I started a new 2D animation, I asked my art school colleagues and classmates which size to create the images at. They said 720 x 480. I thought it should be 720 x 486 or some other dimension, but followed the advice.
Needless to say, the animation is done and there's no way I am going to recreate my (hundreds of) graphics (done in Painter) to 720 x 534 or higher. Basically what happened is I dropped the 720 x 480 images into a Final Cut NTSC project. They rendered as square pixels.
Everything looks crisp and clear in Final Cut. When I export to Quicktime, everything is also fine. Of course though, when burning to iDVD and DVD Studio Pro it got stretched. I tried to go back to Final Cut and re-export a Quicktime with 720 x 486 and 640 x 480 sizes. Now I have the correct aspect ratio in DVD Studio Pro but the quality is still not crisp. At least I am making some progress though.
Is there anything else I can do to improve the quality of my animation or did I just waste my time and energy for two years? Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi to everyone who answered.
These are all great solutions. After getting a little sleep, another possibility regarding my problem popped in my head. On the DVD Studio Pro simulator last night, everything looked pretty clear, especially the 640 x 480 version. I then tested the burned DVDs (various tried in different formats) on my computer's DVD player. My work computer is new and I may have forgotten that it's set to PAL. (I live in Rome.) I forgot that while my DVD is made for NTSC, that sometimes they play on PAL DVD Players and this is perhaps another reason it looked "off."
I'll test it on my laptop today (with the NTSC DVD Player set) and hopefully can get access to a TV with multi region DVD player to test.
I do also like these various options discussed here as well. Final output is a DVD for Animation Festival submission. I guess they would then be played from DVD to the big screen. Some festivals do use TVs though so it's best to be safe.
Again, THANKs (mwah!) for all the great suggestions!

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