Quality degrades on burning dvd

Very frustrating. While we wait for the next 3 and a half hours for the next DVD to burn, perhaps someone can explain to me the process of getting a high quality dvd after I'm imported HD into iMOVIE.
I read a post from a few years back that suggested saving for "MEDIA BROWSER" vs. iDVD as they had the same problem (barber pole, blurred b/g. artifacts).
So, it took 6 hrs today to render the 2 hr recording and I then started to build the iDVD with chapters, again, the third attempt now. Attempt, meaning to get a copy without the artifacts, barber pole, blurrs, etc. Each one has burned, but they look lousy.
So, this time I get two versions of this vid: a 1280 x 720 7.9gb version and the "Large" 960 x 580 3gb version. I am assuming I should chose the former.
How do I know that is the one I've chosen? How do I remove the other one if I don't want it to ever show up again? How am I SURE that I've actually dragged and dropped the 1280 one into the drop zone? The other file keeps "highlighting" ? What is the trick? Why is this so difficult? I also now need to remove three versions of this "film" as they are taking up 20+gb. When I do a search how do I know which to remove?

Here's a solution that I did. An answer. Step by step. I'll post the other questions one at a time to see if there are answers to those as well.
Using iMovie 09 and iDVD 09.
Notes: Do NOT choose iDVD when asked where to SHARE or EXPORT, even though these are logical. If you do, your burn will look crappy when you play it back on a HD tv. Save yourself the 12+hours I spent learning this over 2 days.
iMovie
(Be sure and note EXACTLY what you called the movie because you will need to find it later. Try to make the name as unique as possible, dates, times, version as you may not be able to easily find it.)
Share>Media Browser
Choose HD 1280 x 720>Publish
Wait.......
Launch iDVD
Open New Project, Name it.
Choose a Theme
On the right hand side you'll see THEMES - BUTTONS - MEDIA
Choose Media
Now, here's where it is tricky.
Find your movie.
I"ll wait.....
Now, in my case I had TWO choices (versions) of the SAME movie, named the same thing. (OOOPS).
One was called "LARGE" the other "720p" But looking closely I see the size of LARGE is 3GB. The 720p is 7.9GB. Larger means better quality, so choose the one that is better quality if you have more than one version because you've tried to do this a couple times like I did. Can't tell you how to get rid of the other one yet. I think you have to just go and buy an external hard drive once the computer is filled with files you want to get rid of but can't because it's a mystery where they are. And remember, since you can't see the size when you use "search" and these are both versions of the same named film, you can't be sure your eliminating the one you want to eliminate.
Build your scene selections as you normally would.
Then simply burn to the DVD now and wait the 3+ hrs.
The quality of the DVD was as good as a commercial DVD placed on an HD TV. The menu is soft though; don't know why that happened and will play with it a little more, but the quality of the movie is superb for standard DVD on an HD TV.
Now....let's see if we can not reclaim the 20 gb from the 3 burns that didn't go well.

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    For my archiving, I keep the tapes, then Archive (I use Premiere Por's Project Manager, but PE has Archiver), to keep my Captured DV-AVI Type II's, plus the full Project. These go onto a series of 2TB external hard drives. If I anticipate needing to just burn additional DVD's later on, I'll burn to a folder, and keep that intact also. Otherwise, one can make a duplicate DVD from a "master," and not have to re-Transcode, or re-Compress.
    Hunt

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