Various export setting advice needed

I'd like to get some precision on some settings. I've made my film montage on iMovie 9 using my camera Sony DCR-SX40, It's 22 min long and has quite a bit of transitions, the file size is 4.2 GB. I'm doing it to give friends the DVD so they could view it on their TV. So currently all I know is that I need to export it as 720X480, but there are more settings I don't know about, like compression type, there are about 50 to choose from, I chose Apple Intermediate Codec, but maybe there's a better one? Then in the same box there is another selection of compressor presets:
-HDV 720p ( I imagine I chose this one?)
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-HDV 1080p
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-Interlaced (yes or no?)
In the box with Export Size Setting I chose as dimensions:
NTSC 720 X 480 16:9
2 things I'm not sure if I should check or not, and don't know what they will do:
-Preserve aspect ratio
-Deinterlace Source Video
Thanks!

Choose the highest quality available.
Along these lines, I've been experimenting a bit today and have been disappointed with deinterlacing. It doesn't make the "big difference" I was hoping for. Yes, a little better, but not what I was looking for. In the course of this I realized that most of the quality loss I've seen is in the Share to Large process. If instead I export to a QT movie at DV quality or higher, the resulting movie looks much better than the "large.m4v" that iMovie puts on the Media Browser, which is about 5% of the original file size. (That high compression is what got me looking harder at this.)
I haven't yet shown that this leads to a better final DVD, but I'd be surprised if it doesn't. It will likely take longer to encode, but worth it if I can see a difference at the end. I'll try it tonight.

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