Dragging QTmovie into iDVD, 'unsupported action'...why?

My first play with idvd. When I drag a quicktime movie into a drop zone or outside the drop zone, I get message 'Your last action is not supported by iDvd'. When I import the same quicktime movie, I've got no idea where it goes...can't see it...just the original 'themes' set-up...How can i see my quicktime movie in idvd??

I am receiving the same message. The odd part is that movies that I have created on my laptop burn easily, movies created on an eMac will not burn on that eMac or on another Mac. The format is DV-NCST. I have tried opening in iMovie and saving it as another movie. That did not work. How can I change the format to make sure it is an appropriate format? Could a pref. in my iMovie have gotten changed on accident, therefore inadvertantly changing the format? Any help would be great!
Thanks!
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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