IDVD is eating my hardrive!

Am I the only person with this problem. I have been using OneStep extensively, to convet a number of DV tapes to DVD. The problem is that each time I complete one cycle, iDVD does not release hardrive space it used to capture the footage and to create the mpeg2 file! Ihave to reboot to get the harddrive space back and even then I still end up losing a GB or TWO!

I'm losing between 1 and 2 Gig each time.
Don't know for sure... Might be the way the hard drive is organized; but don't think about optimizing: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25668

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