Garbled audio when burning to idvd 08

I have idvd 7.0.1 and imovie 6.0.3. Everytime I burn my present project it burns seemingly without errors. But then when i put it in my mac it just spits it the dvd without playing it. I've then taken the dvd and put it in a dell laptop and the dvd video plays fine but the audio is garbled. Any suggestions on what might be wrong and how to fix the problem? Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi
Three thoughts.
• free space on internal (start-up) hard disk ? 25Gb or more ?
• How did You go from iMovie to iDVD ? via Share/Export to iDVD" within iMovie ?
I don't I close iMovie and open iDVD then either drop the movie icon (with a Star on it)
or import it into iDVD.
• Upgraded to QuickTime 7.5 - seems to give problems in many cases
Yours Bengt W

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