Poor DVD quality; commercial help?

I can't get my 17-minute FCE film to export to DVD without major quality loss. I export to QT, it looks OK on the computer, but burn to DVD via iDVD, and both audio and video quality are bad. Have scoured these forums, tried umpteen different settings. I give up. Are there any commercial entities/persons to whom I can send my FCE file (or .mov file) and they do it for me?

Tell us exactly how you are exporting from FCE. To QuickTime Movie? Or QuickTime Conversion? (If you are exporting for the purpose of burning a DVD, you should only export to QT Movie, never QT Conversion.)
What versions of FCE & iDVD are you using, and are you really running OS X 10.4.11 as indicated in your profile?
What are your FCE sequence settings (frame size, vid rate & compressor)? Ditto for at least one of the clips in your sequence?

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Complete name                            : C:\Local\Piotrek Local Documents on xps435\My Local Shows\2012\04 Pogrzeb Melanii Grobelnej\Pozegnanie Melanii Grobelnej_DVD.mpg
Format                                   : MPEG-PS
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Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 6 518 Kbps
Video
ID                                       : 224 (0xE0)
Format                                   : MPEG Video
Format version                           : Version 2
Format profile                           : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP                    : No
Format settings, Matrix                  : Default
Format settings, GOP                     : M=1, N=12
Duration                                 : 45mn 47s
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 6 164 Kbps
Width                                    : 720 pixels
Height                                   : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate                               : 29.970 fps
Standard                                 : NTSC
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Interlaced
Scan order                               : Bottom Field First
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.595
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Audio
ID                                       : 192 (0xC0)
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Format version                           : Version 1
Format profile                           : Layer 2
Duration                                 : 45mn 47s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 224 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 73.4 MiB (3%)
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Complete name                            : C:\Local\Piotrek Local Documents on xps435\My Local Shows\2012\04 Pogrzeb Melanii Grobelnej\amanda_customDVD_2.mpg
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ID                                       : 192 (0xC0)
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Format profile                           : Layer 2
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Joe Video wrote:
Original recording with a JVC HD cam GY HM 650.
1080 60i Quicktime
File directly imported into Premier from SD card.
Edited and saved.
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