IDVD Distorted Sound

Have created a 50 minute video with background music and it previews great in iMovie, click on create a DVD project and it previews with badly distorted sound in iDVD ??? Any ideas why ?
Have a PowerBook G4 with DVD drive.
Previously I made a Magic Movie direct from camera with same original tape and it worked OK, now I having edited it in iMovie I have this problem.
Also, an error message appears "Your project exceeds the maximum allowed content duration. You will not be able to burn your DVD while your Encoder Setting is Best Performance. This can be changed in your iDVD Preferences."
How can this be when video is just 50 minutes long and DVD+RW is 120min?

Hi Peter
Can there be sound outside/extending the movie track ?
Does Your super-drive support DVD+ ?? my only DVD- !
Try making a disc image and see if this runs OK.
or
Probably You have used the function - Share to iDVD - from within
iMovie. Try another way.
a) Close iMovie
b) find the project icon/folder
c) Ctrl-click on it and Show package.
d) in this there are a folder -> Shared Movies -> iDVD
e) in this there are a QT movie nnnnnnn.mov
f) drop this into an open theme in iDVD and save it as a desktop image
(if iDVD prior HD/5 You have to add a hack to make this possibly
named HPfurz and install it)
Test this with Apple DVD-player - OK then burn it with iDVD
or Toast if You have and dont want to re-code the movie.
Yours Bengt W

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