Toast Disappears. Quicktime Issue?

I have a friend with G5 Mac desktop with 10.3.9/QT 7.5 and Toast 7.1.3. For a long time now, he has been a happy camper with this set up. But about a month ago, Toast started disappearing during the encoding phase of burning a DVD. It just disappears then reappears, empty. I have run Applejack, Tech Tools Pro and Disk Warrior, as well as upgrade QT to 7.5 (from some 7.1 version, I believe) so far and that has helped. He now only has this problem when he tries to burn a disk with large files of mixed origin: specifically, for example, when he tries to burn a DVD made from a 600 meg .avi and a 600 meg .mpg. Toast always will encode the .avi, then disappear when it has to deal with the .mpg.
What could be causing this, especially after such a long time (a couple of years, I believe) of happy DVD burning?

Exactly. Toast encodes MPEG 2. But, when making a DVD from, say AVIs, Toast relies on QT to decode the AVIs into raw DV. Then Toast uses its own built in encoder to do the MPEG 2 encoding.
In the case of my friend, one of the file types he has trouble with is an MPEG 1 file (not DVD compliant). QT has to decode that to raw DV before Toast can encode into MPEG 2. My question is, is it possible that the QT MPEG codec is corrupted and it is causing Toast to fail (when QT decodes the MPEG 1 video, before Toast converts it into MPEG 2).

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