The quality was not lost during burning. When you used DVD Flick to convert to NTSC, did you use "high quality encoding/2 pass", or normal? The process will be slower if you choose 2 pass/high quality, but will output better picture.
yea that's what it was. ill be sure to check that next time. Thanks again for all your help ive been going crazy trying to figure this out! your a lifesaver