Premiere Pro project burned in iDVD very pixilated

I'm stuck! I'm posing this question in both Adobe's forum and Apple's because I can't figure out were the problem lies. I shot & edited a wedding video recently in Premiere Pro CS4. For wedding video I normally export to at QuickTime NTSC 29.97 SD file then use iDVD 7 (only because they have nice DVD menu templates for wedding videos) to burn to DVD. The draft file I exported and burned in iDVD 7. The video looked good.
After the customer requested a few changes I then exported from Premiere again and burned in iDVD 7. But this time the video is noticeably pixilated. I exported the movie again, again and again (maybe 15 times already) and the same thing. I've tried exporting shorter versions of the video, different scan options, everything. Funny thing is I still have the original draft file and when I burn that one its still looks good. That's the only one that works. I then bought a software called Media Inspector which analyzes video files and shows all the settings and I'm showing that the original file is identical in it's settings to the ones that don't work.
Anybody have any ideas? And yes I did export the video in Premiere as an MPEG2 for DVD and burned in Encore and it looked good to. It's just that the customer is expecting that DVD menu know and I'm not knowledgeable in creating one in Encore from scratch yet.
Thank You

As a test, it might be interesting to launch Adobe Encore (included with PrPro, as of CS3, though you might not have installed it), and then see how it handles that MOV file. I would do a simple AutoPlay (no Menus), and Burn to either Disc, using a RW media, or to Folder, and test on a DVD software player. How does that look, compared to iDVD?
Good luck,
Hunt

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