DVD studio and iDVD 6 projects and templates ?

I have a couple of projects made in iDVD which I would like to use as a starting point and combine into a DVD Studio 4 project(s). I see on the forum that there is a possibility to import iDVD4 project, but not v.5 or 6. Having made some iDVD stuff "on the road" it would be an advantage to be able to make a more permanent solution in DVD Studio without having to spend a lot of time redoing everything, templates and all...
1, Is it way of saving/ exporting iDVD 6 projects as iDVD 4?
2, Is there any 3rd party software that could be used to import iDVD projects into DVD Studio?
3, Is there any way of at least importing some iDVD 5 or 6 templates?
4, Is there any source for DVD studio templates that resemble the iDVD 5 or 6 ones?
5, Is there any source for additional DVD studio templates?
6, Is there an Apple "fix" for this missing import issue on the way?
thank you in advance for any ideas and info
PB17,MBP,PM,+ Mac OS X (10.4.5) Macintosh user since 1986 or so

The answer is the first four questions is NO.
Google DVD Themepaks and you'll find additional themes for DVD SP.
You can extract the menu VOB from the iDVD disc image using MPEG Streamclip and use that as an asset for a menu, but that requires no menu buttons to start with.
best wishes
David
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