IDVD 08 worked, now freezes

My particular situation is that iDVD 08 worked fine for about 2 weeks.
Now when I open it, the "loading themes" bar comes up for a while, goes away, then the dreaded "whirling beach ball" goes on forever (only on the menu bar), and I have to "force quit" iDVD.
And on the dock it has the black arrow under the icon, as if it were running. I tried deleting the old themes, and then custom installing iDVD again, like it said on Apple's page. No change, same problem.
But unlike other situations I've read on these pages, it was working fine before.
I had no previous versions of iDVD.
Should I un-install, and install from scratch? If so, how do I do this?
Please somebody help!
Thanks,
Pablo

I just posted this in your other inquiry:
This frequently helps solve some problems. Quit iDVD. Search for the file named com.apple.iDVD.plist and trash it. (A new one will be created next launch of iDVD.) Or look in: User/Library/Preferences. This may solve project loading errors too. Restart and use Disk Utility to Repair Permissions.
You'll need to reset some Preferences.

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