IDVD burn has unwanted movies embedded on the DVD

In iMovie, I created 4 separate projects, each 30 minutes of a vacation I took. I separated into parts 1, 2, 3 and 4. I shred each iMovie project in the media browser and am creating a new iDVD project for each one. Each 30 minute movie is to be a on a separate DVD. I burned part 1 and for some reason 2 of my other movie clips are showing up on the DVD as well. They don't have a button on the menu, but they are there on the DVD. I don't know why this would be happening since all are separate iMovie projects and separate DVD projects. The only thing I can think of is when I created the 2nd iDVD project I did "Save As" and I then deleted the button from the 1st one. So maybe the other movie was still embedded in that iDVD project even if there is no button?
Any insight would be very helpful...
thanks!
Kim

Hi
Yes this sounds as the - iDVD BUG -
By making an iDVD project then go back to the editor e.g. iMovie - then back to iDVD this BUG will ignite and lot's of things goes wrong.
Else - it can be so that when You deleted Movie 1 button You did forget to Erase iDVD Assets too. Has to be done or If You make a brand new iDVD project for Movie 2 then You need not to.
In all cases - easiest and most fault proof way is to make a brand new iDVD project for each Movie / Set of Movies (and never go back to editor).
Yours Bengt W

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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_shot>
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There can be many things that can create this - what differs from me are
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