IDVD do not start

When I click on iDVD icon, it says "You cannot use this version of the application iDVD.app with this version of Mac OS X.". I have OS X 10.5.7. I downloadedd iDVD 5 update but it did not solve the problem. Can someone help me out? I would really appreciate it!
Thank you

HI! Appreciate some help. I just realized my IDVD 5 will not work with OS X.5. I have read through the post of others having the same problems about IDVD 5 not running with OS 10.5., but I am not clear about the solution.
Do I need to buy a new Ilife suite or can I just download iDVD 6 from here
http://support.apple.com/downloads/iDVD6_04
and it should solve my problem?
Appreciate any help to solve this problem. Thanks.

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iDVD takes a while to start up.
How do you know that iDVD doesn't answer any more ? Using activity monitor ?
Well Activity monitor isn't to rely on in all circumstances. When rendering in
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Hi
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*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows:*
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