"Error #-1 was reported..." No disk image created

I created a new project, using the iDVD 4.0 movie projector theme. I dropped a 75 minute movie onto the theme that I created in Final Cut Pro and exported as a self contained movie. It has chapters and there are 5 pages of scene selection submenus. I put a :30 clip into the drop zone in the main menu and each of the submenu pages. I changed the default font to American Typewriter, and its color to white instead of the default color. All seemed well.
I chose Save as Disk Image and let it rip. I checked on it occasionally, and it seemed to be burning right along; I could see the footage passing in the burn window. At the end of the ordeal, I got a message that "Error #-1 was reported...", and I have no disk image and no encoded assets.
What's up with that? I had saved an almost identical project as a disk image a couple of days ago, and have used the same two movies for this one. The differences are that I made a couple of fixes in the movie, and that I exported as self contained instead of reference movie.
I have been using iDVD 5 since it came out, and had very good luck. But this project is giving me a headache. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
BC

To follow up on this, I found that by switching to a completely different theme, my error message did not recur. So then I went back to my original theme (the movie projector) and did a test with a short clip, and I did not get the error.
I did the test on the movie projector theme without changing anything about it; when I first did the project that generated the error, I had made changes to the font, position and color of the theme, and I had five pages of scene selection submenus. It's possible that something I edited didn't agree with iDVD, and I got my error.
But it was INFURIATING to wait six hours for a disc image to burn, only to find that it didn't work. In the end, I decided to go without a menu and have an autoplay DVD. I used a method I found here in the discussions:
http://karsten.schluter.googlepages.com/nothemedvd
I used the one labeled the hard way. It worked great!
BC
one hit, no errors

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