Wrong colors on iDVD burned disk after FCut Pro installation

Hi there:
For some reason, after burning a DVD using the iDVD 5.0.1 software all I get is wrong colors when playing it in ANY DVD player. If I watch the very same disk on my G5 Mac, everything turns out ok!
Is it a codec problem?? This problems sudenly began AFTER I installed the Final Cut Pro on my disk.
How can this be explained by the Final Cut installation? And how can I get it right again?
Any help on this would be highly apreciated, please!
Thanks in advance!
Rui.

The images are pictured ok, but the colors are wrong. I have two DVD players at home:
- When I play the DVD on an expensive Pionner DVD player, the reds turned into some sort of green, and the overall color range seems more «cold» (ie, more blue and greenish)
- When I play the DVD on a cheap 20 dolars players, everything turns out black and white.
It happens this way no matter if I use the NTSC or PAL preferences when burning.
I also tryed to asve a .img to disk and burn it using the Disk Utility. Didnt work also.
Ok, I'll try what you say about the external monitor
Thanks for being around.
Rui.

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