NTSC DVD Sources Lag with 23.976fps Encode

I've never had this problem before with other DVD sources but for some reason in this particular project, from the two areas in this compilation that I made with the NTSC DVD-Video content, in the MainConcept h264 23.976fps @ 3000kbps render, the video has this lag/slow motion effect thing going on.. The content is imported with AVISynth. I've tried everything I can possibly think of: different export settings in the program, adjusting the properties of how the video is processed in the program, tampering with some DGIndex settings, and trying to fix it with different AVISynth code. Only thing that works is to actually export the video at 29.976 frames per second which.. ruins its quality. Anybody have ideas as to what the problem might be/how to fix this? Thanks.

Unless I didn't understand what you meant, then uh, yeah, that's exactly what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to get the content that "lags" to be like everything else that "doesn't lag" or just to be normal, if you will.. Besides quality wise, it shouldn't look any different than the source in terms of smoothness of like the motions or w/e.. I will upload three different encode examples of the same clip. If you want, I can also upload the original, but it'd be wrapped in an AVI container. And BTW, obviously aside from the desired framerate, I've tried every combination of settings here but the problem still remained.
The desired encode settings with 23.976fps framerate (VBR 2-Pass @ 3000kbps with 5000kbps maximum - 396p resolution - Main Profile, Level 4.1 - MP4 multiplexing with PSP/PS3 stream compatibility): http://www.filedropper.com/sequence1
Same settings but with undesireable 29.97fps framerate: http://www.filedropper.com/sequence2
VirtualDubMod encode (same bitrate, but CBR - slightly larger resolution - desired 23.976fps framerate): http://www.filedropper.com/sequence5
Note how the encode from VirtualDubMod has much better quality (more of an effect from the AVISynth code), and how it doesn't have that lag effect.
*The only reason the VirtualDubMod encode is larger in size is because the audio is uncompressed.

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