Burn Failure - Image Incomplete

I'm having trouble burning a DVD. Done this lots of times before with other projects but this is the first DVD made of up entirely photo slideshows rather than movie and slideshow.
The burning proceeds fine until the 'cleaning up' stage, which fails. The disc spews out, an error message telling me that the image is incomplete appears and then nothing happens. I have to force quit.
The DVD works fine, except that the last of three sections doesn't work properly. The menu motion works. The buttons are all there, but they don't do anything. The photos files of these slideshows are on the DVD, but saved with their original titles rather than the changed titles that I have given them (and they still have) in iPhoto.
I've checked the log. Burning finished. I've repaired permissions. I've deleted the iDVD plist and restarted,
Any ideas?

Save as Disk Image worked and revealed the problem with the other method. I can't burn the finished disk image to DVD because it is 8.5GB. Why then does the iDVD status window say that its 3.8GB and attempt to burn it?
I will obviously have to trim the DVD - slit it on to two discs maybe. I have multiple slide shows and have added all the files to the DVD, which obviously causes the problem. All the original photos are included as well, even though I have not selected this option. In addition, all the photo titles have reverted back to the original imported names rather than those I have given the photos in iPhoto, which makes having the files on the DVD less useful as an archive anyway.
Thanks for your help. The saving as a disk image at the burning stage was a new thing to me.

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Thanks in advance for any help. This is the first time I have any problems with iDVD burning discs.
I have an 86 minute, 2.6 gb iDVD movie made in iMovie, all 06 versions.
It ejects disc and says "current operation", "image incomplete", after normal burn time. I have burned 100's of discs and have never had this problem. I tried cleaning up permissions, restart, log out and back in, clean cashe, I also freed up some hard drive memory. I have tried both internal and external DVD burners. I forgot about the old and tried method of deleting preferences and did this too, and I am trying a new burn. I did not change anything before this problem happened.

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Do You have minimum 25Gb free space on internal (start-up) hard disk ?
Has to. iDVD can't use any other as scrap-disk neither can Mac OS.
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