After waisting 3 DVD-Rs, cannot play converted SVCDs to DVD

[fluxcapacitor]

I have burned TONS of DVD-Rs that play find on our Pioneer DV-C503 5 disc DVD player. I have a movie on 2 SVCDs. It's not the finest quality, so after converting them w/ SVCD2DVD, the DVD files only come out to like 1.73GB. The SVCDs are PAL 25fps, 2 ch @ 44100khz. When converting I have selected to re-encode the audio to DD 2 ch @ 48000khz. Also I selected the "apply Pan & Scan info" , which specifically mentiones that it enables "Pioneer" DVD players to "render DVD-SVCDs properly". I have also tried taking the DVD output files from SVCD2DVD into DVDShrink 3.1, and backing them up region free. No dice. Every time I've burned this to a DVD-R and put the disc into the DVD player, the picture "bounces" as though a vertical hold setting needs to be adjusted and the disc "sticks" (i.e. does not advance) on the first frame. I'm at a real loss here, about to hit walls and pull my hair out. By all means, drop some knowledge on me please.

[fluxcapacitor]

Forgot to mention though that these files that won't play once burned, play fine on the PC through PowerDVD or DVDShrink.