MPEG4s I make on Mac won't play in windows XP

I made some MP4 videos for someone on my mac and burned them to disc. When they try to play them on their Windows XP machine we get the error message following error message:
Not a valid MP4 file. Either "Wind.mp4" contains no moov atom, or the file has been corrupted
Thanks for any help

Here's how it went down. Made two mp4 movies for a guy who uses windows.
The first one was from a VHS tape I converted. I have an analog to digital converter that goes right into iMovie. I opened a new project that I created in mp4 instead of DV and imported the video into imovie. Then I exported it out of iMovie as an mp4 file .
The second file was from a vob file I extracted from a DVD using DVDxDV. DVDxDV extracts vob files as quicktime movies. Then using quicktime I exported to mp4 using the quicktime default settings.
I burned them to CD just using the finder.
I tried later to burn them in Toast Titanium but Toast is acting up and won't burn CDs (but come to think of it I never checked for Toast updates after upgrading to Tiger).
Thanks for your help.

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