No SuperDrive on MacBook

I do not have a SuperDrive and am trying to export a project and burn it on a DVD burner on another Windows computer. Should I be burning the disc image or the the VIDEO_TS & AUDIO_TS folders? Is there a special way to burn the DVDs? When I burn the img file, DVD players do not recognize to play the DVD.
Thanks!

Try these links. Hopefully one of them might work:
http://forums.appleinsider.com/archive/index.php/t-55281.html
http://macosx.com/forums/mac-os-x-system-mac-software/270718-burning-idvd-6-img- file-windows-pc.html
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6314339&#6314339
http://homepage.mac.com/geerlingguy/macsupport/mac_help/pages/0023-convert_dmg_imgiso.html
another option might be an external FW Burner connected to your mac (starting at about $72 from OWC):
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/optical-drives/
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• CONFIGURATION
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2. Partiton (Data): 149.68 GB / 7.69 GB FREE
3. Partition (OS X.6.1): 32.97 GB / 27.46 GB FREE
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Medien: Um die verfügbaren Brenngeschwindigkeiten anzuzeigen, legen Sie ein Medium ein und wählen dann „Darstellung“ > „Aktualisieren“.
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ATA-Bus:
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Einheiten-Nummer: 0
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• i checked the RAM. Result: "BANK 0/DIMM0 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM 667 MHz OK
BANK 1/DIMM1 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM 667 MHz OK"
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• i checked for a hanging Firmwareupdate in the Account/Startup on both systems. (there was nothing)
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3. bring my MacBook Pro to the AppleStore where I bought 10.6 on sunday and demand a new Superdrive for free (but it's a long way to there)?
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Until then i "temporarly solved" the problem by buying an extern USB-DVD/CD burner. But I don't want to carry that thing everywhere with my Laptop.
Cheers,
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