Odd lines in 16:9 anamorphic export

so i have a feature length documentary i've been working on. we play wednsday. we had an export we thought was fine, but when screening it beforehand, we found grey lines in the middle of the dvd. so ill describe it all from square one.
we had a 4x3 version of the film, shot in mini dv and brought onto a 4x3 timeline. when the color correction, cutting, and audio were complete, i transferred the footage to a 16x9 anamorphic timeline....dv ntsc. i scaled up the images in the motion tab, in a nest, so that they fit into the 16x9 area. we sacrificed a bit of image quality, but we had a nice aspect ratio.
now when i export the movie, and watch it as a file in quicktime, or on a burned dvd, the exported version occasionally has these odd greyish lines going horizontally through the screen. theyre very wide apart, maybe seven of them on the screen at once, spaced far, and theyre not quite grey but dark lines that are as if they have a low opacity. ill upload a screenshot so you all can see
the scan lines are faint in this screenshot but are heavily dark on a dvd. They do not appear in my timeline whatsoever. What the devil is happening!?

im sorry for the jpeg quality. theyre not diagonal lines, theyre horizontal. and they didnt come out in the picture at all, but i guarantee you on a projector, theyre magnificently dark and stand out like mad. its so odd. ive tried it in many dvd players, three so far, and it shows up in each. horizontal lines, that are somewhat opaque but still visible. like the "ghosting" you see on a tv that uses an antennae? only seven or so lines, spaced apart evenly. the second picture i posted, if you zoom in to the girl's cheek, you can see one of the line intersecting the white hotspot on her cheek

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