DVD Studio Pro 4 USE WITH EXTERNAL DVD BURNER??

Hello
Looking at buying DVD Studio Pro 4 for my mini but apple have just stated it will not install unless my machine has a superdrive. We've got an external firewire DVD burner and i've read mention of other versions of DVD Studio burning through externals so how come we carnt use DVD Studio Pro 4 with an external DVD burner?
Has anyone tried an external DVD burner with DVD Studio Pro 4 ?
Cheers

This issue isn't external drives, it's the mini, and installing the program.
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/dvdstudiopro/specs.html
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