IDVD menu items greyed out? Help!

Hello, i recently bought an external DVD drive for my mac mini ( unfort, I bought it used for good price, and didn't realize until later that the mini didn't burn DVDs. Its a combo-drive unit). Anyhow, after installing my external DVD drive, I figured id try out iDVD for the first time. I opened up iDVD '08, and for some reason almost all my menu items are greyed out!
The items i can access through the menu bar are: New, Open, Quit, and the 4 buttons ( create project, Magic iDVD, etc)
The items i CANNOT access are pretty much everything else! : About Idvd, Preferences, Check for updates. It seems to me if i cant access "Preferences", something is seriously wrong.
Any ideas why these items would be greyed out? Maybe some options aren't available until i get rolling, but "About IDVD" and "Preferences" should be available at any point.
Thanks in advance
Darren
P.S. A little more info: The external DVD drive ( LaCie d2 16X DVD-RW Firewire, Product # 301120R) does apparently work. I was able to burn a simple test disc with a slideshow. So I do know the DVD drive works and can burn discs. Anyhow I'm wondering if IDVD somehow checks the computer drive ,sees its a Combodrive that my mac mini has, and therefore glitches somehow? Only thing I can think of?
Message was edited by: DauthiSlayer

Thanks for the tip. Now i realize i have another problem. There is no icon for my external DVD drive, like yours shows in the screenshoot. If i go to SYSTEM PROFILER, and look under Hardware>Firewire, sure enough the LaCie drive appears there. So the Mac is apparently aware of it. But there is no icon on my desktop. I unplugged both the power and Firewire cord and then replugged it in, and still no DVD icon appears on the desktop. My external Harddrive appears on my desktop..i wonder why the external DVD drive would not?

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