DVD burning trouble

Hi, Whenever I try to burn a Data DVD using Itunes, it checks the playlist, and then tells me that the playlist is too large for one Data DVD. Itunes is showing that the playlist is 4.53 GB, and the DVD is good for 4.7 GB. I've tried using a Sony DVD and a Verbatim DVD. I would prefer to avoid burning small amounts on to DVD's when I know what is happening. What am I doing wrong that Itunes is preventing me from burning the songs onto a DVD. The songs are recorded in 128 bite, and are in MP3 format. Thanks fro your help.
P.S. I have a DVD burner built into the Ibook
Oh, and as a side note, if I try to drag more then about 20 songs into a folder on my desktop, Itunes won't let me. This was another way I tried to burn a DVD, but realized it wasn't time smart when messing with around 1200 songs. Once Again, Thanks for the Help

Although your DVD says 4.7 GB, you can't fit more than 4.3 to 4.4 GB of data on it.
There are two reasons for that.
Manufacturers of storage devices advertise with GBs, where they state 1 GB = 1000 MB.
Your computer uses: 1 GB = 1024 MB, which is correct.
So a DVD can hold 4.7/1.024 = 4.59 GB at maximum!
Not only data is stored, but also an index of all the files on that DVD.
That also has to be substracted from the total capacity.
Effectively, you should not try to store more than 4.3 GB on a DVD.
Your second problem could be due to the following:
If a file(name) that you're trying to drag into the desktop folder already exists, iTunes won't let you copy it.
If you try to do that in the Finder, you will get a warning (of course)
iTunes doesn't give a warning, just does nothing.
Hope this helps.
M
17' iMac fp 800 MHz 768 MB RAM   Mac OS X (10.3.9)   Several ext. HD (backup and data)

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