Background encoding question

Still trying to figure out why I'm suddenly not able to burn an 8.5 minute movie after 14 hours of waiting........then I noticed that when I select certain themes, I get a status bar for both the movie & the theme in the background encoding section of the status panel (for example, Montage theme). On other themes, I only get a status bar for the movie (and not the theme). I thought I always had 2 bars. Could this somehow be keeping me from getting out of Stage 4? Years ago I downloaded Ola's patch, and things ran well from that point on. Is there a new patch I need to download or something?
iMovie 4.0.1
Mac OS X, version 10.3.0
450 MHz Power OC G4

Hi
just thinking
Mac OS X.3.9 (my favourite)
QuickTime 6.5.2
iM & iDVD v 4 - don't know latest no:
a 450MHz G4 would take about 20-30 hour per hour of movie to encode
for iDVD.
49Gb free is OK (I try not to go under 25Gb)
Yours Bengt W

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