IDVD authored DVDs that won't play in domestic players

For what it's worth with all the traffic here about discs not playing, here's my experience. Hope it helps. Although the following is a wee bit ranty, apologies.
Having successfully authored many DVDs in Panther with iDVD 2, since completely upgrading (not migrating) to a new machine with freshly installed Tiger and iDVD 5.0.1 I cannot successfully burn DVDs from either iDVD or iDVD .imgs from Disc Utility that will play in anything but my trusty 3 year-old Pioneer 355 or Apple DVD player. This is using the same media (Verbatim) as I have always used.
DVD players take a while to read the disc, then show the main menu (even if the DVD is autoplay). On selecting an asset to play, the player freezes. In fact one Panasonic player I have crashes. I have to power it down and up to get the disc out.
On authoring the same assets with the same structure using the same Verbatim media in DVD Studio Pro 4.0.3 I have complete success.
This to me goes to show that my Superdrive is almost certainly not an issue.
Rather than troubleshoot iDVD further I have decided not to use it at all until I have iDVD 6. I cannot afford to waste more time and money on software (and possibly the way software talks to hardware) that plainly does not work fresh out of the box.
Why do I use iDVD when I have DVD SP? It's hassle-free, fast, and does no less and no more than I need. Until now.
Tom Ackroyd

Sounds a lot like what I went through. Have you modified the theme (such as added a custom background image)? See my earlier post at http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1689970#1689970 for a complete description of this bug.
- Andy
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