Adywan,
1. Have you prepared an audio commentary track? If not, you might consider delaying your DVD production. Doing an audio commentary is great fun and can be cathartic after a long project.
2. Please contact me about PIF(ing), because I am in Asia (Hong Kong/Taiwan region) and do not want to wait until the next ice age to see your edit. I still cannot render your file properly (please advise concerning your codecs).
I can burn DVD-9 (I do it regularly), but must emphasize to everyone the importance of using EXPENSIVE media: Verbatim is the only way to go. If you burn on anything else and then forward it, you are probably sending a coaster. ImgBurn + MDS + Verbatim = DUAL LAYER SUCCESS
I prefer NTSC (the 4% pitch compromise is offensive to me), but I own the Pioneer DV-696 and can watch/test anything, so please count me in for ANY format.
3. Torrenting is better than PIFing (others here have already tried to make this point). Once the hive is established, DVD-9 can be had in 5 to 7 days with low to moderate transfer rates (say, ~15KB/s). The hive for your AVI is already so healthy that I needed only 6 hours to DL.