Some flickering scenes in DVD (from HDV in FC7)

Hello
I have a little problem.
I am trying to burn a dvd from a HDV secuence in FC7 and the resoult is that my dvd have some scenes with flickering  images.That is a kind of luma flickering to be precise. Some times a part of the image, let say the left superior corner..., other the entire frame. It occurs most of the time in the bright parts of the image
My workflow is the following:
1- In secuence settings I select ProRes 422
2- Export/ Quicktime conversor/ ProRes 442
3- Load it in Compressor
4- 90 presetings/90 best
5- Burn it with DVDPro
Anyone who could give me a cluo of the causes of these flickerings? Any recomendation/solution?
Thanks a lot for your help!!

Don't use QT Conversion. Export QuickTime Current  Settings.
My guess is you're seing interlacing artifacts. If that's the case, they will look particularly bad on a computer screen. They may not be noticable played out from a DVD player to a TV.  If they are, try de-intelacing a short test section in Compressor; it does a good job.
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    I would rather restore it with an external Hard drive, not an USB memory stick.  I think both would work the same.  I do have an USB floppy drive, if there is some way of starting installation from floppies.
    Like I said, I really like the computer, even with all its faults, but I would like to restore it to its original  Operating System.

    Some progress, I got it to try to boot from an external hard drive.  Downloaded a program called WINToboot. tried to run it, got as far as formatting my  hard drive and might have loaded some kind of boot program.  Would not copy my restore disks because they did not have set up program.  Copied both restore disks to hard drive and tried to boot laptop.  F0 produced choose external hard drive choice.  Got "no OS found" error. only choice ctl alt del. I think I am headed in right direction.  Just need to know what to load on external hard drive. 

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