IDVD complaining about disk space (wants about 23458723094587235723945 GB)

In a school lab situation, we have iMacs set up with Tiger server. Students log into server and have a quota of disk space for their working environment - I think it's 100 GB.
They're creating short iMovie projects (about 2 - 4 minutes) and are required to submit them to their teachers on DVD.
More often than not, when a student chooses the Share -> iDVD option, iDVD refuses to burn the DVD claiming that there's not enough room to build the disc. It says the disc will require several quintillion gigabytes (give or take) to render.
Idunno... this is only a two or three minute video. I kinda doubt that's true!
Anyone else seen this?
- Mike

Hi
Most probably a pro issue - But I share my amateur thoughts (may be do not apply
on Server/Net-work systems)
iDVD
Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows:
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Hard disk is untidy: Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
• Delete iDVD pref file - *or rather start a new user/account* - log into this and re-try
• Program miss-match: iDVD 5.0.2, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK - DON’T work under Leopard
• Program miss-match: iDVD 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Program miss-match: iDVD’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• iDVD (08) v7 Locate theme folder. Move out iDVD1, iDVD 2 and eventually iDVD4 folders to desktop - re-try
iDVD 6.0.4 and iDVD 7.0.1 are compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
iDVD pref file resides: Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences
and is named: com.apple.iDVD.plist
While iDVD is NOT RUNNING - move this file out to desk-top.
Now restart iDVD.
Yours Bengt W

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