Audio is great in iDVD preview, when Disk image is burned it cuts out

My project works great in iMovie and iDVD in the preview state. When I burn a disk image though, the sound keeps cutting out within the last 7 or so minutes of my video.
It worked when I burned a dvd a few weeks ago, but since then, I went back and edited a few more pictures to what i had previously had, and shared it in the media browser. It looks great in iDVD. But now the sound is not consistent. It cuts out in the middle of a song.
Help?

I went back and edited a few more pictures to what i had previously had, and shared it in the media browser.
The best advice I can give you is to create a NEW iDVD project. Sometimes iDVD is 'unhappy' when you edit the video in an existing project.

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