.dvdproj won't open from backed up disc idvd '09

I saved two idvd09 projects files for backup (on two discs to be safe), and tried to open them on my new mac. I am now unable to view or edit them. One error message comes up when I try to get it directly from my backup dvd that has all my documents on it- it says that the, "file is not writable- this project seems to be write protected and can't be opened". When I copied it to my desktop and try to open it, I get, "The following files could not be found."
This is for my wife's students-getting this to work would be huge!!!
Thanks in advance.

If you didn't save the project as an ARCHIVE, you may have real problems. An ARCHIVE includes all the elements used in the project and can be quite large. A project file has references to the location of all the elements on your hard drive at the time you last used the project - if anything is moved or deleted the project won't work.
If you simply want to make more DVDs, you can use Apple's Disk Utility to duplicate an existing DVD. In the future, to make it easy to burn more DVDs, create a disk image file in iDVD (an option under FILE) and save it.

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