I'm confused about saving projects...

Last summer I created a project and burned it on a DVD. I later removed the pictures from iPhoto, but am still able to view the project when I click on it in iDVD.
Thinking that iDVD 5 must work without having the pictures on iPhoto (as opposed to iDVD 4, which I knew required the pictures), I removed the pictures from iPhoto that I had used on my lastest project. I just discovered that apparently some of them are still needed. I'm so confused. A broken chain or a black space show for some of the pictures on the theme page, but I am able to view the slideshows successfully, despite the fact the pictures have been removed from iPhoto.
Can anyone explain what is going on? I can't remember how I saved the project last spring that would enable me to view it without having the pictures on iPhoto. Would archiving have achieved this?
iMac Mac OS X (10.3.9) PowerBook G4 17", OS 10.4.5

OK, so if your current Apple ID using your AOL Username (like johndoe), then you need to log onto Manage your Apple ID and EDIT that AOL Username to a valid email address: Apple - My Apple ID
If you have an AOL email address (like [email protected]), and you are not using that as another Apple ID, you can change the AOL Username Apple ID to that. Otherwise, you can change it to any valid email address (which you will have to verify when you change to it).
Hope that clears it up. Post back if it doesn't!
Cheers,
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The clips i have are of her 1st year and are from the same camcorder. Unfortunently (as previously described) i changed the settings on the camcorder half way through the year. So i have 2 sets of clips i want to use if possible.
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Format                           : JPEG
Codec ID                         : MJPG
Width                            : 640 pixels
Height                           : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 4:3
Frame rate                       : 30.000 fps
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:2
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 1.161
Stream size                      : 144 MiB (98%)
Set 02 (you have a copy of 1 the clips from this set (2010-12-20 - emily in jersey.avi)):
Format                           : JPEG
Codec ID                         : MJPG
Width                            : 720 pixels
Height                           : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 3:2
Frame rate                       : 30.000 fps
Standard                         : NTSC
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:2
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 1.158
Stream size                      : 93.5 MiB
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Would you agree that these settings look about right, or would you still recomend the settings you previously suggested (for that clip from set 2)?
Also, just to complicate things slightly too, i have 2 further clips that i wouldnt mind fitting in that were captured using a different camera altogether. I was not going to use them because of the incompatible frame rate, but is it possible? It doesnt matter too much if its too much of a pain becausde they are only 2 clips.
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Format                           : JPEG
Codec ID                         : MJPG
Duration                         : 3mn 2s
Bit rate                         : 16.3 Mbps
Width                            : 1 280 pixels
Height                           : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 16:9
Frame rate                       : 24.000 fps
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
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Title                            : FUJIFILM AVI STREAM 0100
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