IDVD 6 error -8850 !!!!!!

Folks... am tearing my hair out on this one, and am hoping someone can shed some light on the subject! I'm running iDVD 6 on an Intel MacBook Pro, still at OS 10.4.9. Am trying to create a DVD Image, and after it runs through the sequence iDVD reports error -8850, which I cannot find reference to anywhere! Contents is a .mov video, plus a bunch of photos in individual slideshows (photo files included in the burn). I've done all the usual debugging (created small test DVD which ran fine, deleted encoded content, removed non-Apple stuff from Library/Quicktime, checked for buttons outside the TV safe area, DiskCheck, created project archive on 2nd drive and ran from there, etc). Still no joy! Console log keeps complaining about "slideshow.mpg" not being found, but I have not inserted anything of this name, and have double-checked in the DVD map and on all the screens and DVD project info, and cannot find any stray reference to any content of this name!
Would very much appreciate any suggestions!!
Tom

I'm using an external firewire drive for the 8GB DVD project file (I had created a project archive to gather together all the needed resources, which were coming from the iPhoto and iTunes databases on that other computer). I mount the volume via the Finder, and save the disk image on the local computer. I'm right at 24GB free on that local computer, so I was concerned with putting the 8GB project archive onto the local disk.
Some interesting results after a very long night of trying to debug this last night... the Console error of "cannot find slideshow.mpg" which is pointing into the Resources folder inside the iDVD project package is evidently not a critical error. I stripped down the project to menus plus slideshows only (no movie file, for which i've tried both .mov and .dv formats), and each of the 7 slideshows I only populated with 2 pictures each. The DVD image completed successfully in this instance, even though the Console log still compained 7 times about not finding a slideshow.mpg file! I then went into one of the slideshows and added the baland of about 8 pictures, and when I re-ran the DVD image file creation, I again had error -8850.
Ah Ha! I thought at 2am this morning... a corrupted file. Shut down iDVD and fired up Tech Tool Pro, but no indications of problem files. Ran both File Structure and Finder Info checks.
When I re-ran the DVD image file creation, still had the same fatal error -8850, and a non-mountable image file created. When I pull out the extra pictures from the one slideshow, it ran with no errors and produced a good image file. BTW, i have viewed each of the pictures in that slideshow, both via the iDVD edit window, and through other programs, and they display just fine.
I'll try more debugging tonight... I tried to run a stripped down DVD structure with only the one slideshow in question, and I think it ran OK, but I was getting pretty blurry-eyed by then.
I'll report back on progress after tonights episode. I figure I should test by adding photos back into one or more of the other slideshows, while keeping the first minimized, and see what happens. Also will try again on a stripped down DVD with only the one slideshow in question. Any other suggestions on special debug steps would be (as always) greatly appreciated!
Tom

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