IDVD Hanging On Disk Image AND Burning

I've been having this problem since upgrading to 10.4.7 (I have iDVD 6.02). I can't burn a DVD and I can't save a disk image. iDVD just hangs up and quits or it just hangs and becomes non-responding.
I restarted and repaired permissions over six times and even tried it running no other applications but iDVD and still have the same issue.
Help!

Hi Leigh:
Did you read the Apple article that Len Goff
suggested?
iDVD appears to be unresponsive when encoding Audio
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302988
It may just take a lot of time to finish. have you
tried burning overnight?
Sue
I set it up Wednesday Night to burn and at 9 am it was still hanging. I force quit iDVD and restarted my Mini and set it up to burn again and when I got home from work it was hung at the Audio encoding again. I repaired permissions and attempted the process again over night and this time the DVD had been ejected but was still blank when I went to play it. I then read the this forum post and trashed the plist, repaired permissions and attempted again and still no luck! I am about to try it again and see what I get when I get home from work!

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