IDVD 8 versus Toast 8

I was confortable with iDVD 4 but can't make much sense of iDVD 8. Is Toast 8 easier to use ?
I edit my pictures in FotoMagico and the audio in GarageBand. I put chapter markers in GarageBand and transfer the lot back to FotoMagico, which I then export to iDVD 8.
Apparently there is a bug in iDVD 8 which means that my FotoMagico project will not open iDVD 8 automatically upon exporting it; I have to bring my relevant .mov project to iDVD manually. But that is a different subject.
I just can't work out how to bring the chapters to show in the Theme window of iDVD before the Burn.
Is someone out there doing the same sort of thing who could enlighten me ? (FotoMagico / GarageBand / FotoMagico / iDVD 8)
The main question is ... is Toast 8 easier to use than iDVD 8 ?
Tks in advance
jcr

Is Toast 8 easier to use?
Yes.

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