IDVD crashing when attempting to change font in Theme

Hi, all:
I'm writing on behalf of my 13-year-old daughter, who with a friend used iMovie HD to make a movie for a school project, and then used iDVD '08 to burn that project to a disc. She's had to edit the movie a bit, and has shared the edited version with iDVD, but is now having a problem. Here's her exact e-mail to me (I'm in Europe right now; she's at home in the US)...
"hey i had to do a few touch ups to the movie that me and jill made, and every time a tried 2 share it 2 idvd, it worked, but when i tried 2 change the font on the themes thingy, it always said, "idvd has to close unexpectedly. we apologize for the inconvenience." or something like that that made me have 2 force quit it more than once. dont panic, the new version of the movie is still saved on imovie, but i dont know whats wrong with the other thing. please email me back ASAP! xoxo"
TIA for your help & suggestions!
Bill from CT (but in France)

Just an additional thought to add to Glo H's excellent recommendation.....if your daughter sends her movie to iDVD and then needs to change anything in the movie, iDVD will recognize that something has changed and ask if it should update. And you think, nice, all is well. But, if you have chapter markers in the movie, iDVD will not 'update' properly. If you don't know this, you will see iDVD going ahead and encoding and burning, but the DVD disk will not play correctly. From the chapter marker nearest the change, all further chapter selections will default to that one.
I have had this happen three times now, and it has been with iDVD8. The previous version made the changes appropriately. The last time the only change I made was to change the spelling in a title! The other changes were to delete one song in an audio track and add another.
The only way to fix it was to create a new iDVD project and drop the movie in again.
I am using iMovie 6. Maybe iMovie 8 or 9 would be different. I just wanted to caution you. I know how difficult it can be to provide your kids with assistance from a distance. Mine used to call from college and it took at least 20 minutes just to figure out what they were doing......then I had to find the answer!

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