IDVD closes before burning / message asking about blank DVD

Someone please help...
I finished my movie, set up all of the menus, inserted a blank DVD and let it render. After 6 hours of waiting, the progress menu finished encoding the audio and right before it started to burn, iDVD quits without saving everything I've done. A message then comes up stating something to the effect that "I have just inserted a blank DVD. What course of action do you want to take: Ignore, Open iDVD etc." Well - obviously I inserted the DVD so it would burn HOURS ago. This has happened twice and is quite annoying.
Another time recently and it finally burned the movie, popped out the DVD and quit before asking to burn another.
After that, I tried again and it rendered the menus, froze and then spit out the blank DVD before encoding the movie.
A little technilogically challenged here...any help would be appreciated. I own a Mac OSX but can't find out what version it is anywhere.

You've posted in the iDVD 6 forum so I hope you have iDVD 6. We ALWAYS recommend making your 'burn' out of iDVD to a disk image file (an option under FILE) for MANY reasons.
You can then use Apple's Disk Utility (or Roxio's Toast) to burn the disk image to as many writable disc as you want. See Burning a disk image on a CD or DVD at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=DiskUtility/10.5/en/duh1884.html
A message then comes up stating something to the effect that "I have just inserted a blank DVD. What course of action do you want to take: Ignore, Open iDVD etc."
It sounds like you inserted the writable disk at the wrong time - probably before iDVD asked you to do so.
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Can a cheap disc cause the symptom like this?
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Tonight I'm trying a different type of DVD. Memorex instead of Verbatim.
I wouldn't do that. Verbatim DVD-R burned at 4X or slower is your best bet. If you create a disk image from iDVD, you can control the burn speed. See below.
Suggest you create a disc image and then burn the DVD. File/Save As Disc Image...
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Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (maybe the .img) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. A new window should drop down and your SuperDrive tray will open after clicking the Burn icon. Insert a recordable DVD. (Verbatim DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. Select a burn speed. Then click the Burn button.
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Bought Oct., 2003 iMAC G4 Dome, DVD burning is problem with another brand blank DVD-R....
I used to burn with Apple Co. brand blank DVD when I use iDVD program and iphoto. I burned Apple brand blank DVD-R yesterday iDVD projects.
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Until the last week, I burned Apple Co. brand blank DVD when I bought lots of blank DVD made by Apple Co. brand. Apple brand blank DVD -R was perfectly working with my iMAC G4.
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I have no idea.
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tomorrow, I need to burn iDVD project in order to show my buyer.
Help me......
Message was edited by: raramiko
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.2.x) bought Oct.,2003

At First, I try to do your first option,
Verbatim brand DVD-R is not working.
Next , you said,
"Verbatim should have worked. Typically Apple branded discs are just repackaged Verbatims. One thing to note about that machine, a firmware update supported higher speed burn support DVDs:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86130"
-------- Pop up window said, "This update is not compatible with this model Macintosh"
so, Let ms check this DVD Devices & volumes , it is ,
CD-RW/DVD-R
Disc Burning Fully supported.
Unit Number 0
ATA Device Type atapi
Device Serial EA998D08
Device Revision A43h
Product Identification DVD RW DW-U10A
Vendor Identification SONY
The result is ... Mine is Sony brand.
If that doesn't work, and your clock battery has been replaced in the last four years, zap your PRAM:
Finally, if none of the above works, you may want to get an external Firewire burner from http://www.macsales.com/
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your last option is the last of my choices.
Is that all?
I have used power mac 6100-66 since 1994 that is still working in my studio, I love MAC, In My Studio, I have two Macs, One is Power Mac 6100-66av and iMAC G4 17" flat Dome.
I have No Idea why my DVD -R Burning Broblem with others brnad blank DVD-R except Apple brand. and you company said, "Typically Apple branded discs are just repackaged Verbatims."
But My DVD Burning is still problem with that Verbatim brands DVD-R.
Really,if you take care of your future customer, Your company needs responsibility to even just, one customer's sound.
Now, I have no solution except to buy external Firewire burner with my money.
Now to Future, who can buy the MAC without the clear solution service in Apple Co.?

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-->If the virtual disk selection won't allow you to click the Burn icon, use the .img file instead. This may have changed in 10.3.9 and did change in Tiger.
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