IDVD application gone

I know I've burned dvd's with it. I have a superdrive, at least I did.
How do I check what drive I have? Could I have lost my Idvd application when I had my harddrive replaced? It's just gone. I'd like to burn DVD to back up photos, and am not sure if there's another way. I'll call the MAC store tomorrow to ask, but does anyone have a clue about what might have happened. Do I have to upgrade to ilife '08? I'd rather just keep what I have.

Welcome to the Apple discussions.
To see what you have, click the blue apple in left corner of menu bar, about this mac, more info, and disc burning. If you can burn DVD's it will say so.
It's possible idvd wasn't reloaded when your hard drive was replaced (not knowing how your programs were transferred to the new drive). You've already used finder (click apple key F) to search for idvd? If you've done that and it's not there, you can reload what shipped with your system off the original OS X discs for your system. Do you have those?
You don't need to buy iLife08, and if you did you couldn't use iMovie, which requires an Intel processor.
If you just want to do a data backup to dvd, there are several programs to do that. Go to http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx and type in dvd backup. One program, which I haven't used, but has 5 stars and is free is http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/29322 . Also, there's an Apple article on backup at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106941#2c

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