well,what a lot of advice! thanks everyone!
as it turned out i did the following
used womble wizard to extract dvd to mpg (no video re-encoding, but got mp2 audio).
loaded above into v5 as default ntsc project then rendered out as pal dv.
results look pretty bloody good.
would have been much better if they could have supplied original master thouigh…
thanks again for all the help,
leslie