Clicking noise after every still photo and chapter introduction.

After we have burned the DVD of our movie, we could hear loud clicking noises after every still photo and every chapter intro. These we could not hear in iMovie. The sound from the video camera was pulled all the way down on the clips following the stills.

Hi HailGalvatron,
It's very possible that the new drive is DOA. It's not very common but it certainly happens. The drive shouldn't "click" or "grind" when the drive platter is spinning. If you're not able to detect the volume on the drive properly via Disk Utility (when booted to a CD/DVD), I'd say it'd be worth getting the drive exchanged.
I have a few Seagate Momentus drives in my stable of external drives and they've behaved pretty well over the years. I believe the issue that other users were reporting were with a specific 60GB model found in the first generation of MacBooks.

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