IDVD 08 wont load up a project from iDVD 4.0.1

Can anyone help me? I'm trying to make a DVD for me and my friends and we're on the verge of giving up. My friend made the DVD on his eMac on iDVD 4.0.1. The DVD wouldnt burn, it just popped the DVD out after putting it in the drive. Its probably his eMac's DVD burner, its plays DVDs but wont burn them. Anyways, so i got an external hard drive and put the DVD project on it. Now i've tried to upload it on my mac mini on iDVD 08 and it wont load. It Comes up with two messages. The first is this:
"At least one of the themes used by this project is missing on your system. The default theme "Revolution Main" will be used instead."
The next message is this:
"Changing TV Standard
Changing the TV standard will require iDVD to encode all previously encoded assets again."
Then it just says "loading project: EvE SL 07.dvdproj" and since then nothing has happened.
Is there anything that i was supposed to do that i haven't done? Like backup files or something? I really have no clue.

I have the same problem - there is another thread around here where I put up the trace information but no-one seemed interested in helping.
I have not been able to get anyone from Apple to show any kind of interest at all in fixing it.
My next idea is to use the property editor to see what is in the project data (XML) that it could be complaining about. I would imagine that they have changed the meaning of an item or just moved it.
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