IDVD filling up the hard drive

Hi !
I made a test in 4 new macs 2 new G5 an 2 new iMacs
I imported 2 jpeg pictures in imovie and started IDVD then started activity monitor.
After just a 30 sec the hard drive started too fill up (seen in activity monitor) and after 2-10 minutes the encoder server and the thumbnail server crashed (seen in activity monitor)
system 10.4.2(imac) and 10.4.4(PM) tried on iLife 05 and 06
What cold bee the problem ????

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