Need advice on a bizarre project mixing 29.97, 24 and 25p video!

I'm preparing to do a very unusual project and want some advice regarding making sure the setup is correct.
Here's the backstory. We released a couple of films a few years back on DVD, using new prints, new transfers, etc. They look very, very nice.
As it happens, they were edited together, many, many moons ago, into a compilation film. Now we'd like to release the compilation film as well.
However, the available materials for the compilation film are not all that good. So what we'd like to do is use it as a guide, and reconstruct it using our better source materials.
Now comes the complication:
The available "guide" materials are PAL -- 25p. Our better source materials are NTSC - 29.97i.
OK. Being a bit of a hacker, I whipped up a program that sucked in 25p video files and spit them out as 24p; in effect, removing the traditional PAL speedup.
I pop that into FCP HD (in a 24p timeline, of course) and it works fine. Each frame slots in perfectly.
I grabbed the original PAL audio, plonked it into the timeline, slowed it down to 96%, and that matches up perfectly too. So now I can play the original guide film in 24fps.
Next I took the 29.97 3-2 pulldown NTSC video, and hacked together another little app to remove the pulldown and spit out 24p video. That also works just fine. I can grab segments of the new video and lay them over the old video, frame by frame.
So far, so good. But some questions before I do too much work:
1) I saved the slowed-down audio to an AIF file so I could just use that rather than the slowed-down audio track. But when I lay the AIF back into the timeline, it is very slightly speeded up; the original slowed-down track is 1:27:22:17/24 long; the AIF is 01:27:17:12/24 - a ratio of 0.99900662. Looks to me like a 29.97/30.00 problem. Interestingly, the AIF lists in the browser as being 1:27:22:23, so it's getting shrunk when it goes into the timeline. Anyone know how to deal with this?
2) The above problem has me concerned that when I go to export the video/audio for compression, they'll become desynchronized. Are there gotchas I have to worry about? Should I be munging stuff to 23.98? Or is 24 fine for DVD production.
Much obliged for any help you can provide
G4 1.44DP   Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

Robert, first of all, I don't know the answers to your two questions - the first I'd have chalked off to a rounding error, but I believe for going to video, you want to be at 23.98. Have you tried creating such a sequence and seeing if you have the same problem with audio length slip? Which may have bearing on your second question.
Now to my question - the "hacks" you threw together to modify the frame rates, etc. Any chance you might give some access to them - even if they're rough-and-ready?
Thanks,
Patrick

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    3) Does an Apple TV actually store the movies then? Can they later be downloaded, edited, and >> saved to DVD or whatever is the latest thing? (Obviously we don't have an Apple TV and don't >> know a thing about them.) Would this be a quick fix? If we could store them now, be able to
    view them easily, and later, as we have time, we could edit and burn them to a DVD, that might >> be worth the money.
    With the Apple TV, you can either store the movies on your Mac, or you can store them on the Apple TV. Usually, you would want to use the TV to watch edited movies, not long unedited ones. When a movie is ready for TV, it is already in a format that can be burned (h.264). If you ever watch movies on an iPhone, it is the same format, but a better picture because the video is created at larger dimensions and at a higher data rate. The TV is primarily a convenience, because you can pick your movies off a menu. You don't have to get up and change DVDs.

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