IDVD errors#-34506

Any suggestions to this issue would be greatly appreciated. I'm trying to burn a 2 hour DVD of my daughter's dance recital using IDVD 6 on my MacBook in conjunction with Maxtor 300GB hard drive containing 2 IMovies files and 2 Quicktime slideshows. In addition, I have Sony dual-layer disk burner connected as my external burner. The IDVD program runs for about 3 hours burning menus, extracting audio and video before posting error message #-34506 and locking up. Must use force quit to shut down program. Cannot find any reference to this error message in Help or online support.

Hopefully you have resolved your problem by now. If not, below are my comments, FWIW.
Error 34506 is a multiplexing error. Can be caused by any number of things: messed up permissions, bad clip in iMovie, etc. Usually it is project related and not a problem with iDVD in general.
The above contributors have given very sound advice. Historically, this error has come up with numerous users and there is no one cure. You just have to try things.
I'm not sure whether this has been mentioned, but if not, you should try doing a permissions repair using the Disk Utility app on your Mac hard drive.
If that doesn't work, there is another procedure that has worked in the past. And that is to export your iMovie as a full quality DV stream, and then import it into iDVD, and remove the old movie.
In iMovie, go to File/Export/Quicktime
In the "Compress Movie for. . ." drop down menu, choose Expert Settings. Click on "Share". In the Options Drop Down menu, select "Movie to DV Stream" and export to your Desktop. Then drag the DV stream movie into iDVD, and remove the old movie. Then try burning as a Disk Image.
Hope this helps.

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