Can't burn disk image

Hello there. I made a disk image with iDVD 6 and when I try to burn it with Disk Utility it just seems to hang and go nonwhere. How do I burn the image in Toast or in any other program? Thanks.

Ok...
I've seen many people post that link to "how to burn a DVD from a disc image" using disk utility. I must be doing something wrong because it's not working for me. I know the image is good, because I've transferred it to a PC and it burns just fine. I also know my Super Drive is OK because a burn directly from iDVD works fine, too.
Here's what I notice about burning from Disk Utility:
Sometimes, the burn completes but fails in the Verify stage. Other times I get a message to the effect "cannot retry." Which it is doesn't seem to matter much, although I have even seen the "cannot retry" message even on a burn that looks "visually" to be the right length. I realize I should have written this message down but it slipped my mind at the time and I am reluctant to create any more "guaranteed" coasters.
All of the coasters have one thing in common: there is an inner ring that is burned on my iDVD burns and not burned on my Disk Utility burns. The coasters with the "complete" burns mount and play on my Macs. Even the incomplete burns mount and play, as far as they were burned. They do not mount (i.e. show up as blank) on PCs and will not play in DVD players.
So, there must be something about the procedure I am following to burn these disks in Disk Utility that is just not right. For the life of me, I can't figure it out. I've stared at these links quite a bit and just not been able to see what I'm doing wrong.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42724
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006
I saw a post about this, specifically about how a guy spent a bunch of time on the phone with Apple, and all they could tell him was to contact the DVD player manufacturer. Then he found some magical step that nobody mentions that makes it all work. Unfortunately, I closed Safari before printing it, and can't find it now. The subject, I think, was "Apple Support Hung Up on Me."
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