New output option -- dvd for tv viewing

Hi all of you apple peeps,
I'm new to posting here but I've loved reading the forums. I've found them very very helpful, for which I am grateful. I've been working on an oldie version of FCP (4.x) with short educational videos (about 4 mins) that I've posted on the web ok. I am going to be participating in a school event where we'll be showing the videos on a multi-computer installation, and one administrator suggested that I burn them to dvd for tv to sell for a donation so that we can make more educational videos.
I know the quality won't be perfect, since I never intended to make them for tv. I know that I can use dvd pro on the school's computer (my FCP package came with livetype and soundtrack but not dvd studio) to have them encoded for tv, but can anyone please help me with basic steps to note in FCP and then in DVDpro? I have four shorts on the same sequence. Should I make chapter markers in FCP? Will they be 'read' by DVD studio pro? How should I output the files from FCP? Do they need to be compressed first or would that be doubly redundant since DVD studio does this? I will be bringing along a firewire hard drive with the files and will hook them up on the school computer that has a more recent version of FCP and will have DVD pro.
Any basic help is much appreciated. I will be checking more books and online forums, but at this point, with this event, I'm about to drop! Most likely we will be selling to people who are not expecting Speilberg ... at least not this version.
Thanks in advance!
Betty

Ha ha, fast response. I used the term Peeps as opposed to Chicks as opposed to ... I guess...chicklets.
I checked out DH's link and wonder -- how to I differentiate the different videos as sections or chapters? I'd like to have the chicklets who view my dvd to be able to select the next video if possible.
Also using the compressor intimidates me. I tried using it a couple of times to no good end (I believe there was a smell of burning tires, or was that hair, while trying to use compressor). At the risk of getting scorned at by you busy professionals, can someone point me to a link of dropping a fcp file into compressor? Can it possibly be as easy sounding as that?

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