SCC files not matching timeline timecode

Has anyone run into a problem with their SCC file for Closed Captioning not lining up with the timeline timecode? We had our Captioning done by a professional captioning company and a text file they provided, which matches the SCC file timecodes, lines up perfectly with the timeline in Encore (since we provided them a window burn of the timeline). But when the disc is burned, and played back on a TV, the captions start off right and then over the course of the almost two hour program, drift to be off by 7 seconds near the end. I noticed that the DVD display time does not match my timeline timecode and is off by a few seconds at least. My sources and timelines are all drop-frame, so I tried changing all of the colons in the SCC file to semi-colons using WordPad, but that didn't make a difference. Any help would be appreciated, as I am out of ideas. I am trying a test now with adding the SCC file before I transcode (maybe it didn't like an .m2v file being linked to an SCC).
Help?!?

Hi Ruud,
Yes, the timecode matches the timeline...
The last line should appear at: 1:52:23:23 as shown in the .txt file that they supplied as a reference.
--> Display at 01:52:23:23
--> Erase at 01:52:27:05
IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND OIL.
--> Display at 01:53:15:29
I don't know what the last "Display" line is for, but below is the actual caption file (SCC) that I opened in WordPad:
01:52:22:28 9420 9420 9470 9470 97a2 97a2 49ce 2054 c845 204c c1ce c420 4f46 20c2 4c4f 4fc4 20c1 cec4 204f 494c ae80 942c 942c 942f 942f
01:52:27:03 942c 942c
01:53:15:27 942c 942c
They don't seem to match perfectly, but they seem to be really close and both are within frames of my timeline. I tried a test to re-encode within Encore after attaching the SCC file to the video and that made no difference. Any other ideas? Again, my DVD timer has a end time of 01:52:13 or something (depends on the player), which doesn't quite match the timeline (off by 6 or 7 seconds). My source timecode and timeline timecode are identical throughout the program, so I don't get it.

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