Mystery Snafu Burning FCP Sequence to DVD

In burning a DVD for a client today, I discovered a heretofore undiscovered catastrophe: archive footage that was supplied by the client stuttered and looked horrible in my sequence when played on our commercial DVD player. It played fine on the computer.
Details: Sequence is DV-NTSC. Rendered at Apple ProRes 422; YUV material all rendered in high-precision YUV; Motion Filtering Quality BEST. Exported Quicktime Movie using Current Settings. Brought QT into Compressor using preset DVD: Best Quality 90 minutes. Brought video and audio into DVD Studio Pro standard settings. Built/Formatted. Everything looked good in Preview at every stage.
When I played the DVD on our commercial DVD player (older model), all the video looked fine except the archive video we got from the client. I am told this looks fine in a computer's DVD drive.
So, where did I go wrong? Might it have been during the capture process (it came on a DV tape)? If so, why does it look OK on the computer? And why does everything look fine in Preview, but not in the final burned disk?
Thanks for any light you can shed.
Giraut

The manual was for Quantel's Harry NLE and referrred to a function "Inv Dom".
+"The Inv Dom (invert dominance) function inverts the field dominance of a clip. It can sometimes happen (for example due to the incorrect setting of a Telecine machine or VCR) that the fields composing a frame are incorrectly paired, giving a juddery effect when played. This box (see below) corrects this by re-pairing the fields the other way round."+
This function is also present in other Quantel products and repeated verbatim in the associated manuals. So it looks like they are talking about what Oliver calls field order on the Cow thread.
Clarification: The term +"This box"+ refers to the Quantel's GUI -a collection of rectangular boxes containing the name of the function available, occupying the lower 1/4 of the user's monitor.
[Example here|http://www.quantel.com/repository/images/productprimattesoftwarekeyer.jpg] if you really want to see it.
+Quoted text from: Quantel Harry Operator's Manual+
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