IDVD audio encoding - Spinning Beach Ball (Help)

I have a project with two separate movies ( 31 minutes each). I've added menus for each and third sub-menu to show information about each. I've tried to create a disk image for the project. Everytime it reaches "audio encoding" it stops in the process with the spinning beachball.
I've upgraded the OS to 10.4.7 and Quicktime to 7.1.2 recently. I have not had this happen before with other projects and have been able to create the disk image to burn the DVD with Toast. Is anyone having a similar problem after upgrading?
I trashed the original DVD project and rebuilt another with the same results.
I'm open to suggestions.

This thread has lots of info.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=494268&tstart=0
Read the second post in the thread about how to check if you are really stalled or not.
Terri

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Hello and thanks ahead of time for any posts to my problem.
I've been successfully working a slide show from stills in iMovie 4 (w/some titles, ken burns, music, etc.)
It's been going great.
I wish I had a security camera taping me so I know exactly what I did at the end....
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... the whole project was done on iMovieHD
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509
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