Help - iDVD window won't come out and play!

This is a very weird situation and hope someone else has a solution. I use iDVD all the time and this is the first time I have encountered this problem. If I launch an existing iDVD project, it will load - I hear the motion music and the iDVD drop down menu headers appear in the menu bar. If I select a command from the drop down menu - like "Save as" - the dialog box genies down from the right side of the menu bar. Expose does not find the window.
I do use an external monitor to increase my work space. I have tried arranging the monitors differently, moving the menu bar around, disconnecting the external display, changing the display resolutions all without any luck. I was able to use iDVD by logging into the Guest user account and launching from there. But I don't want to have to do that for every iDVD project.
Any help from the Mac community would be greatly appreciated.

Found the answer finally by searching thru the old posts. Here is the answer for anyone else that might run into this.
Try the following: close iDVD, delete the iDVD preference file, com.apple. iDVD.plist, that resides in your User/Library/Preferences folder, launch iDVD and see if that helps.

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