IDVD and External DVD burner

I'm currently working on a DVD for a wedding scheduled for Saturday. The DVD works great on the Mac and PC, however, when attempt to play it in a DVD player playing to a TV the music is choppy during the transitions (dropplet). By the way, my superdrive has a 2x burner.
Thinking that it might be the slow DVD, I purchased a LaCie external DVD but now can not get iDVD to recognize the LaCie burner.
Any suggestions on either issue???

Thanks for the help. I was able to get iDVD to recognize the new DVD hardware by simply loading a new DVD into the drive and responding to the question screen concerning what to do with the blank DVD. I was also able to burn the project and make it work with a computer and two DVD players that I have access to. Unfortunately, the brides parent's DVD player basically stops playing the music during the waterdrop transitions I was able to drop the transition and burn a new DVD and all worked fine.
Sorry, I was just panicking before the big day.
Thanks again.

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