Not your average bit rate error

Hi, all-
I had a DVD project that burned just fine yesterday. It contained seven video clips and two menus for a total of about 13 minutes of video. I had a test DVD up and running, no problem.
I decided to trim things down a bit and eliminate three video files, clip thirty seconds out of another, and turn the second menu into a screen of text information only. Now I consistently get a bit rate error where before I had no problems at all.
Any thoughts? I've been editing using Quicktime Pro and saving as a self-contained file. I've had no problems until now.
I'm using 2 pass VBR, various bit rates but nothing crazy. (I was able to burn the test DVD at the highest bit rates possible, but now nothing works.) Motion estimation is set at best. Total video is around 8 minutes, maybe less.

If you have edited one of your video clips and have re-encoded the clip to MPEG-2. It is best to remove the original clip from the track in the DVDSP project and then add the newly edited version of the clip to the same track. A quick fix for your project might be forcing DVDSP to reparse all your video assets by deleting the PAR folder(s)/files associated with your video assets and then opening the project again (it may take several minutes for the new PAR files to be generated when you first open the project).
-k

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