Onestep DVD in folders, not file

Thanks in advance for any help. I have been trying unsuccessfully to get my movies from Final Cut Express or iMovie into a format that is decoded accurately on a Windows machine. I read that iDVD automatically converts to an mpeg-2, so I used Onestep DVD to create a DVD that showed great on my Windows computer. However, what I thought would be a single file like (movie.mpg) is rather a video and an audio folder; and since I need to copy this into another program that runs at my kiosk, is impossible to use. Is there anyway I can get this same quality into a single file? Neither Final Cut Express nor iMovie allow you to create mpeg-2's, and I've tried every other format to no avail. Thanks again. Also, if I need to go to another forum, please let me know.

I contacted Apple Care today, and there was a resolution for this in iMovie, though not in iDVD. Basically, there is a way to convert an iMovie project to an H.263 file. If you are interested in how to do this, please follow my thread under Final Cut Express, topic "Convert to mpeg-2" http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8164350#8164350

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