Moving up to Encore DVD would be your best thing. When you edit in Premiere, you can edit files in AVI form which take up less space on your hard drive and leave the Encoding settings on Automatic. Then when you import the files as assets in Adobe Encore and build your menus, etc. and go to build DVD the Encore software will automatically convert the files from AVI to MPEG-2 files which will give you the best quality on the DVD. AVI file are really designed for burning to CDR blanks as Video CDs not DVDs.
Hope this helps, JD
