'BURN' keeps ejecting...

Hello there...
I'm having a bit of hastle with DVDsp 3... I've made my DVD, all assets etc are complete, and i've finished the project, and in the simulator it works just fine... So, i decided to burn the disc, not build / format etc, just burn 1 DVD, and after a while of watching a grey bar creep along (formating), it all stops with a message saying 'formating complete'... and the DVD is ejected from my computer (I'm at home on a G4 powerbook).
So, i have the disc in my hand, but a disc icon is still on the desktop, which when i go to eject, shows the radiation burn logo... but there's no disc in the computer (?)... I've looked at the preferences in DVD sp, and checked out 'destination' but i don't really know what i'm looking for...
The thing is, i've made DVD's in the past, not many, but a few, and before i'd just click on the burn logo in DVDsp and after a long wait, a few cups of tea and a few boring TV programs the computer would eject the disc and it would play fine... i haven't changed any settings so i don't really understand whats happening.... i'm running out of blank DVDs, and would like to get this sorted out... any ideas?
Also, i don't know if it matters, but this message comes up in the little info screen when it's encoding...
Warning: The file ‘NEWDVDMASTER.layout’ found in the VIDEO_TS folder will not be included in the final disc.
Warning: The file ‘VOB_DATA.LAY’ found in the VIDEO_TS folder will not be included in the final disc.
Much thanks in advance for any help...
All the best
James

Don't ponder over it too long, James! We all go through these moments in our own ways
The error messages are perfectly normal warnings, by the way - those files shouldn't be in the final V-TS folder, and DVDSP removes them automatically for you. The fact they are there at all is also down to DVDSP - they are information files which the app uses when building.
The term 'build' is used when describing the multiplexing process and the creation of a (temporary) set of folders on your hard drive. These will appear in the location you specify in the dialogue box. Formatting, on the other hand, is the process of burning a disc... in effect it is being formatted to the Universal Disc Format which is necessary for it to play in a DVD set top player. The terms can eb confusingf, and when the disc burns so fast it's sometimes hard to believe it has burnt at all.
One thing to be careful of is that a faster burn speed can introduce incompatibilities when you play the disc in some players (not all, mind you). The general advice when burning a critical project to DVD-R is to use Toast to burn it as slowly as you can, to keep the maximum video bitrate down to no more than 7.4MBPS, to use compressed audio (AC3, aka Dolby Digital) and don't stick a paper label onto the disc itself. Even then errors can creep in, but these help minimise their occurence.

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