URGENT: Motion JPEG?? Sequence problems

HI
I have a sequence that instead of having DV PAL in the settings has Motion JPEG A - will this be ok to go into DVDSP for a DVD video project??. This sequence has a few issues with frame size which I've made posts about and trying to rectify.
In the edited sequence I changed the Motion JPEG A to DV PAL, is this ok?? I'm about to try and test this out - but wanted to ask the forum for your urgent advice.
The 1024 x 576 frame size is wrong also - I tried making a new sequence with the 720 x 576 settings and copying and pasting my AV into the new timeline. The template graphic was ok, but the video within it is all stretched!!!
I'm starting to panic now.. as I need to send this off for sound then to the client tomorrow first thing...
Hope you can help.
Cheers, Margie

Hi Karthik,
I'm not trying to create an animation for a webpage.  I'm exporting the movie as a JPEG sequence for use in Final Cut Pro (as it's the cleanest way to recreate a flash animation in a movie file format).  Exporting as a GIF Animation however creates the same problems as when I export as a JPEG sequence... the timelines within timelines (movie clips) don't move at all (the movie clips are animations of various carbon molecules moving in a larger animation of a lot of other things going on).  Also, exporting as a GIF Sequence yeilds the same result... foreground elements move while background elements (movie clips) don't move.  Strangely, everything DOES move when it's exported as a SWF file... except I can't use a SWF file.  I've already tried exporting the file as a MOV file and it's too graphic-intensive and causes a lot of freezing in the animation when it renders as a MOV file, and when I try using various 3rd party SWF converters to convert the file to .MOV or .DV format, it also gets bogged down by the heavy graphics and freezes and skips.
The only way that it works is when I export it as a JPEG sequence because the computer doesn't have to render it in real time, but for some reason, movie clips within the timeline won't play.  I'm hoping someone here knows a way around this, or a setting I can toggle to make it work.  Any info would be appreciated.  Thanks for trying though Karthik!
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