DL Disks - iDVD Freeze

I am a graphic designer (print), but VERY new to doing anything in video. The iMovie HD project I (personal family video) is 1:10min. in size. When I try to burn a DVD in iDVD, I am prompted for a DL disk - file is too big for SL. I have tried burning this with a DVD+R DL and iDVD ejects the disk with the progress bar only half-completed (in the final "burn" phase, all other steps went fine), but also said the DVD was "finished" in the same dialog box. At this point iDVD freezes and I do a Force Quit.
The DVD plays on the G5 when re-inserted into the Superdrive. But it does not play on any of the 3 DVD players I have - one of which is a brand new Hitachi.
I am using the latest updates to iMovie HD and iDVD v5. But I am tempted to try and open this project on a Macbook Pro running Leopard and iMovie/iDVD v7 to see if that makes a difference.
Is there something else I might be doing wrong that's obvious to more experienced video users?
Many thanks!

tmccabejr wrote:
.. The iMovie HD project I (personal family video) is 1:10min. in size. When I try to burn a DVD in iDVD, I am prompted for a DL disk - file is too big for SL...
there's something wrong.. iDVD accepts, as Kirk allready told you, 120min max. on a SL DVD-r.. I assume, you incidently try to burn a dataDVD of your project, no videoDVD...
1) in iMHD - what does the timeline under the huge preview window tells you about the project length?
2) how to you 'transfer' from iMHD to iDVD? .. I get the best results, by a simple Finder operation, dragging'n dropping the corresponding iMHD-project-file into an open iDVD project..

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