Extra frames appear in burned DVD

Can anyone tell me why my burned DVD, (that runs smoothly in FinalCutExpress, and in Preview mode in iDVD) has very quick EXTRA frames?? It is highly annoying, and very frustrating!!! The frames are definately NOT there in the FinalCut timeline, or iDVD preview, so where are they coming from?
Thanks!!!

You're right. It's not very well explained by the Help Menu IMO. Could use some refining. But I didn't write this thing so I can't really explain in detail. But I can show you an image of what I am referring to:
click here
Doesn't sound like your own iDvd project has a movie or slideshow in the first box. But if there were, you simply select it (one click) and hit the delete key.
Suggestion-Go ahead and add it anyway to the first box there and then delete it like I said above. Sometimes iDvd needs a bit of a jolt to get working properly. That or dispose of the plist for iDvd from your Home folder (the one that looks like a house) > Libaray > Preferences > com.apple.iDvd.plist
Make sure to quit iDvd before disposing of this preference file by a simple drag and drop to the trash followed by a complete restart of your mac. Won't harm your mac nor your existing project. But you may need to address iDvd's preferences again / things like the apple logo on the menu (if you want it there or not). I always keep it deselected. Your choice.
Hope this helps.
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    more than enough apple stuff   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

    The machine was working fine for more than a year. It was running EyeTV all of the time, cutting videos and archiving movies. No problem there ...
    I know you're going to find this "unacceptable":
    That doesn't mean anything when it comes to RAM and iDVD. iDVD will find any RAM quality weakness. Weakness that even RAM testing software won't find. I've seen it a lot here.
    Apple (OEM), Micron (Crucial.com), and Samsung are highly regarded. I even saw a removed Micron solve an encoding problem. Hey, nothing is prefect.
    Some "fine reading":
    Overview of RAM issues
    iTunes and bad RAM
    Is Your Memory Failing?
    Macworld: Is your memory bad?
    Macworld: Upgrading RAM: FAQs

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