IDVD crashes after completeing burn

Hi
I am trying to burn multiple copies of a disk. I usually allow the rendering to happen overnight and when I come in the disk has ejected it works fine but the crash announcement comes on to tell me iDVD has crashed. Unfortunately the rendering process has to repeat all over killing 3-4 hours of computer time. Is it possible that the rendered files are saved somewhere? I have trashed preferences but to no avail.Should I try reinstalling iDVD?
On a separate note I tried to copy the burned disk with the Toast Titanium AND disk utility but got an i/o error as it read the first track.
Thanks
Enio

hi Enio:
Try this:
Delete the iDVD preference (plist) file (com.apple.iDVD.plist)
Then repair Disk Permissions with Disk Utiltiy in Applications>Utilities
Post back if that didn't help.
Sue

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