URGENT: settings for Compressor - have motiion blur

HI
(I've posted this in FCP discussion as well) so I hope that is ok. Sorry I just need an answer quickly as time is running out for delivery.
I've just exported a FCP file through Compressor 2 and have some major problems with motion blur. I used the 2 pass VBR and it took 12 hours to export my hour long file - so I wasn't skimping on the quality (so I thought) I'm thinking is must be the settings!
I have to deliver this project in less than 24 hours and am getting nervous about the quality.
When I've done a quick export with quicktime and burnt with toast and there is no motion blur - so the standard settings in there must do something right - that I'm not doing in Comressor.
I need to know bit rates, field dominance, motion estimation, GOP, frame controls - everything really.
The project is DV PAL - 16:9
Thanks for your help in advance. We've litterally spent the last month getting this project perfect and now don't want to deliver it looking substandard in the last phase.
Cheers
margie

I know, I think the 12 hours was excessively long. It was all rendered out before I exported, so it's still a mystery.
It seems that the motion blur was only occuring during playback in the simulator of DVDSP! It was ok when I burnt it and played it back on the TV and when I played the DVD through the computers DVD player! So I don't know what that is, but all is ok.
I have another issue now in the final product. Some of the dissolves haven't come out very well at all. They are not transitioning well and grainy like.
When we were doing test burns, using a reference movie (export/quicktime/untick make movie self contained etc) and burnt through Toast, all was fine. so I know it is not the work done in FCP its the setings or something in Compressor.
I built and burnt the project through DVDSP and also took the build (Video TS folder) and burnt it thorugh Toast as well and got the same result! Very frustrating and now I have to deliver a sub standard product to my client for a launch tomorrow. They are burning off 50 copies for it. Very upsetting. But before they do the replication of 1000 I want to sort this out.
I'll post this same question in its own post so it doesn't get lost in here.
Thanks agin for your help.

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