Motion blur issue once exported to DVD through Encore

I have 59.94 HD footage. I edit it, export it through Adobe Media Encoder to Mpeg-2 DVD at 29.97, drop-frame, lower field dominance. I then import that .m2v file into Encore, and then export to DVD, without re-transcoding or encoding anything. The DVD plays back with a 24p-like jitter, or blur to it. I do not understand this. After encoding the .m2v file, I went back and played that on windows media player, and other media players, and the video played back as it should originally, very smooth. Why is it that in between creating the .m2v and exporting the DVD in Encore, I am getting this 24p-like blur/jitter to the video? Does it matter that some of these videos I am putting to DVD-DL and are quite large? Hope someone can help. Thanks. Any other info needed, I will supply for you.

Matrox, velocity and anyother hardware based NLEs use a 720 x 486 timeline. I've exported countless SD files through AME and the m2v files played fine through a Windows media and VLC, They also imported and burned to DVD with Encore flawlessly. SD is not the issue at all.
The problem is as stated in the original posting is.
I export the HD timeline(59.94) through AME as a MPEG2-DVD (29.97 Lower field) and the file plays fine in the WIndows Media Player and VLC. No jitter. Perfect
It's when I put the m2v encoded from a HD (720 x 1280 59,94 frame rate as a MPEG2-DVD in AME ) in encore ( do not transcode ) and then burn to a DL DVD. When the DVD is played back, the jitter issue arises.

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