I'm not sure about the "right" way to do it, but I use lightweight fusible all the time and my first suggestion would be to not use a contemporary ironing board. I'm not sure what you're working with, but I just have a generic Target ironing board and, while it's great for ironing my clothes, I find that it's just not a good enough surface for sewing projects. I have a quilter's pressing board that I use for everything and I like it a lot better than my ironing board. I get much better results with fusibles in particular, because it's a harder, smoother surface. Another suggestion would be to press from the fabric side, instead of the interfacing side.
Here's the pressing board I'm talking about:
http://www.joann.com/joann/catalog.jsp?CATID=cat2690&PRODID=xprd74140&source=search (I don't ever use all that gridwork on it -- It isn't very straight anyway! It's a great pressing board though.)