IDVD 4 says iMovie is too big

I am taking my VHS home movies and converting them to DVD via iMovie and iDVD. I have been putting four tapes (they are short) on one DVD. The longest total amout of time for any four tapes combined is about 90 minutes. I've done about six so far all exactly the same way. Now all of a sudden, when I've put five chapters (from iMovie) instead of four I get a message that I've exceeded the maximum for the DVD. That is not true, it is only 87 minutes. I have changed the preferences to NOT limit me to 60 minutes (whichever one that is) and I still get the same messaage. I have taken my project down to two chapters totalling about 25 minutes and I still get the same message: that it is too much. I've tossed the .plist for both iMovie and iDVD. Done a restart. Still it persists. It will not burn a DVD of any size because it thinks (falsely) that it is too big. Can anyone help? I need the chapters, by the way, so exporting it as one QT movie is out. I could export it as five QT movies and then assemble it in iDVD, but that is too much trouble. It was working so well. I'm using iDVD 4.01 and iMovie 4. Thanks in advance.
G5/2500 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 2 Gigs RAM
G4/500 Mac OS 9.2.x
G4/500 Mac OS 9.2.x

No, I didn't want to "spank" anyone. I received the same response from different posts. Everyone wanted me to check the preferences, etc. I suppose it is a fairly common problem that has a very common fix. My problem was different. I appreciate the help.
In the end, I suppose I should get the "spanking". I assumed that iDVD would only burn the chapters I selected. To make a long story short, I had five movies in iMovie, but I only placed three of them into iDVD as chapters. I forgot that iDVD would not make a distinction. It would always try to cram the entire movie onto a DVD.
My bad. It works fine now! By the way, I use a device made by Formac. Go to:
http://www.formac.co.uk/html/products/av/stud_1.htm
They sell it in North America, too, although it is a UK link.
Thanks,
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