IDVD 6.0.4 won't cooperate... takes forever for nothing...

Hi, I really hope someone can help - any suggestions on a quick fix? Hate to complain, but what should have taken an hour took an entire day, and iDVD ended up being useless, and if I remember right it hasn't worked in a very long time - sorry but...
iDVD hangs up on every single click, and unless I wait for at least 15 - 30 minutes between clicks I have to force quit. It crashes on its own as well.
Toast 8 burned the converted QT movie shared from iMovie, but it only played on the Mac (!?!) and not in a DVD player. With much trouble I had to record the project back into the camera (kept going black or it'd freeze) and take the DV tape to a video store to record it to a DVD - bad deal!
I have to do the same thing within twenty-four hours unless I can get iDVD to properly behave and work, and I can't, so please, can someone help?

Hi
Long time to encode - Free space on internal boot hard disk low.
• I set for 25Gb or more for standard 4x3 DV and 5 times more for 16x9 HD
Playability - Use of cheap media and burning on a high speed often results in this
• I use Verbatim DVD-R (no +R) and burn at x1 speed
Yours Bengt W

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