IDVD 4.0.1 "unexpectedly quits"

I have a dual 450 Mhz G4 running 10.3.9, 1.3 gig of ram, 30 gig HD w/ about 19gig of free space, an NEC 3520A internal dvd/cd burner. I am attempting to burn the tutorial dvd project within iDVD but i have gotten the "application unexpectedly quits" message. The first time it came up was after 12 hours of being in stage 4, the next occurance was after 26 hours in stage 4. The ONLY reason why im' trying to burn this is because on my own imovie project of 15 minutes it continualy got stuck in stage 4 as well and i had read somewhere in these forums that it is suggested to burn the tutorial to get an idea of how long a burn will take on my individual system.
I have installed patchburn, installed the 'easter egg', ran cashoutX, mac janitor, disc utitlity to repair permissions, preferential treatment, deleted pfiles for idvd/ imovie. restarted before burning and clicked burn once and then again after i saw the radiation symbol and waited for the prompt to feed a dvd to it.
I'd like to know if maybe my slow system bus is what is holding things up and causing the crash. I have been considering purcahsing a G4 laptop or a G5 DP desktop but don't quite have the $$ so i would prefer to just upgrade my system if that is all it needs to do this type of video work. HELP!!!! plzzzz

I have installed patchburn, installed the 'easter egg', ran cashoutX, mac janitor, disc utitlity to repair permissions, preferential treatment, deleted pfiles for idvd/ imovie. restarted before burning and clicked burn once and then again after i saw the radiation symbol and waited for the prompt to feed a dvd to it.
You have covered most points but you should also make sure no other applications are running and ideally restart the system before the "burn". You might like to look at my strategy as a checklist
David Bale, "iDVD ver 4.0.1 video freeze" #2, 06:47am Aug 21, 2005 CDT

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