IDVD PAL and NTSC errors before burning-

Hi anybody-
I'm now getting an error when I hit the button to burn a DVD in iDVD 7.0.3. The error say that I am trying to burn a PAL movie to to an NTSC disc. The movie is in a .mov format, and I have NTSC selected in project info, professional setting. If I change the encoder setting to bestr performance (i.e. lowest quality) the duration of the contents exceed disc capacity.
And it just crashed, again.
Anybody have an idea? Am I missing something?
Eddie
PS- I have upgraded to SL, and am running 10.6.1.

The movies play fine, even though I get this message

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