IDVD 7.0.2 - motion menus too large, cannot burn disc

Hi there,
Can someone help me out with this. I'm burning a dvd I made for christmas presents, and I need to figure this out before the weekend when I need to hand out the gifts ahh!
I finished the dvd, tried to burn it and get the error that reads basically, "motion menus are too large, adjust and try burning again". All menus have photos only - there are no videos in my menus, this is why I'm confused. Could this mean the songs are too big? - I've already reduced the songs to be 2 min for each menu. I really don't want to create the entire thing again, as I'm really close to deadline and the project is completed. Any ideas?
Could it be these: too many buttons in one menu?, videos in each menu are too large? one slideshow I have is 32 min. long, and has 5 songs spliced together for a 32 min. song.?
FYI it is a widescreen project, but may have been started as standard, i can't remember.
Please help!
thanks.

Hi
a. try to do a DiskImage and see if it works OK
b. You could try to see what happens if You turn off animation/motion menu
Else it can be a problem needing to be trouble shooted and cured. See list.
*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows:*
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Hard disk is untidy: Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
• Delete iDVD pref file - *or rather start a new user/account* - log into this and re-try
• Program miss-match: iDVD 5.0.2, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK - DON’T work under Leopard
• Program miss-match: iDVD 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Program miss-match: iDVD’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• iDVD (08) v7 Locate theme folder. Move out iDVD1, iDVD 2 and eventually iDVD4 folders to desktop - re-try
• Try a Cleaning CD/DVD that cleans the laser lens on the DVD burner/player
iDVD 6.0.4 and iDVD 7.0.1 are compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
iDVD pref file resides: Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences and is named:
com.apple.iDVD.plist
While iDVD is NOT RUNNING - move this file out to desk-top.
Now restart iDVD.
Last resort: from Craig: Solved the problem!! Finally!!
I deleted every iDVD application and folder from my boot drive,
emptied the trash and then installed iDVD 08 using the customize option
and I am up and running.
Yours Bengt W

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