I can't get iDVD to write to my external DVD burner

Hi all. This is my first post. I looked around for some similar topics, but didn't find one that exactly answered my question, so I hope someone can help.
I've got a G4 that doesn't have a SuperDrive, just the read-only DVD drive. It's got 1GB of RAM and about 22GB of HD space available. I recently got my first digital video camera and decided to try editing my video using iMovie. I purchased a Sony firewire DVD burner since my Mac isn't equipped for burning DVD's. The Sony drive appears to be working fine. I put various discs in and the computer recognizes them, and I have burned several data CD's and DVD's already.
I just finished my first project in iMovie and got it all ready to go in iDVD 4. The only problem is that the "burn" button is grayed-out so I can't click on it to start the burning process.
My theory is that iDVD isn't recognizing the external burner, and still believes that my G4 is incapable of burning DVD's since it has no SuperDrive. Am I anywhere close in my diagnosis? But even more importantly, if that IS the problem, is there a way to make iDVD see the external burner?

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