Audio out of place when transferring iMovie to iDVD

I've made a movie in iMovie 09 that runs just how I want it to in iMovie. However when I transfer it (via sharing with the media browser) to iDVD and preview it (or watch the film on a burnt DVD) towards the end of the movie the audio from the final 6 or 7 clips is played about 45 seconds before the clips themselves occur. The audio also then plays (correctly) with the clip. I have tried detaching the audio from these clips, as some forums seem to suggest but it still turns up in the incorrect place (before the clips themselves). I have tried deleting and reintroducing the offending clips but am wondering if I could have somehow copied and placed the audio to these clips at the wrong place on the project timeline - and for some reason can't see it?
It's a 23 minute movie that is now ruined by out of place audio right at the end so any help much appreciated.
I'm using: iMovie '09 version 8.0.6 and iDVD 7.1.2 on a Macbook Pro 2.4GHz Intel Core i5, OSX version 10.9.4
Thanks

Are you able to exert the movie to the Desktop and play it with Quicktime Player with all audio OK? What format are the audio clips. Some report best results with AIFF.
iDVD has a bug that if any of the video media is edited after having been added to the project the resulting DVD is compromised. Therefore try creating a new project entirely.
Follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.

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