Idvd cleaning up...still...

Okay, i burnt a handfull of pictures and video clips on a dvd using idvd, took forever, left the computer on over night so it would finish, woke up in the morning dvd had popped out of the drive, but idvd still running, saying cleaning up, and wont let me quit idvd, restart my computer or turn it off, and when i click quit idvd, nothing happens, wont even bring up force quit idvd, any ideas why this is going on? or suggestions as how to quit idvd??

I have had the same issue for a few weeks now.
The only unusual thing with regard to iDvd which I think may have caused this issue,was that I accidentally stopped a process by hitting the escape key.
I redid the process but ever since then this issue persisted.
Is a reinstallation in order ?

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Right hand column - Project Duration is 97:47min, Motion Menus is 5:46 of 7:30, Tracks 1 of 99, Menus 3 of 99; all green.
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--Used 4.4GB (4,739,385,344)
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-- Video_TS file totally fine when played with DVD Player.
-- Disc Utility shows: Capacity 4,739,923,968 Bytes, Used 4,739,385,344 Bytes
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