Idvd burns one dvd, then hangs?

I'm working on a larger project, 6 segments totaling a little over 3 hours, twice I've made a new project in idvd which burns the disc fine but on the 2nd disc burns partway then hangs. From the good info on here i deleted the prefs file and then repaired permissions which I tried after the first time, but no good, one disc then poof! I am using double layer discs.
I didn't work from a disc image which I wish now I would have done and will try next, is this happening because of the size of the files?
I think the dv files are a total of 40-50 gigs.
I had trouble copying the original in toast, so I thought maybe it was the superdrive but I've gotten 2 good dvds.
Any ideas? Thanks!
I am using x.4.8 so it's not the 4.9 problem, and 4 gigs of ram.

iDVD does not ask how many copies you want to burn at the start. When it has burnt the first copy, it then asks if you want to burn another one. Toast, at the start, asks how many copies you want to make. Thanks for replying

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