Burned DVD is grainy (menus, video, etc) But project isn't

When I burn my project using iDVD to a DVD-R the intro screen, videos, and most text is grainy and looks low quality. I have plenty of memory on my new iMac (158gb). Is there a way to make the burned DVD look as high quality as the project as I see it prior to burning it?
Some of the linked project files are on our server, could that be part of it?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

How do I adjust to higher dissolution?
Buy a Blue Ray Burner and software that supports burning HD.
(Not widely used yet on most macs .... but we're getting close).
Essentially iDVD6 is still low resolution software (sorry to say). The final image quality on most stills is less than a third of a megapixel. Blue Ray will change this once it is widely accepted and used on most macs.
These links might help in the meantime:
http://www.boinx.com/fotomagico/overview/
http://www.lqgraphics.com/phototomovie.php

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I've a iMovie HD project that I want to burn via iDVD (7.0.4).
If I click "Share with iDVD" the quality of the resultung video (which is burned to DVD) is rather poor. As I've read within this discussions, the preferred way is to close iMovie and "drag and drop" the iMovie project into iDVD.
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Doesn't a compatible version of iDVD come w/ leoperd
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