Idvd not responding - Connection Failed Warning

iDVD 08 is not responding. The menus appear at the top, but that's about it. I get a spinning ball whenever I mouse over menus. Shortly after starting, I get the message: Connection Failed. The server may not exist or it is not operational at this time. Check the server name or IP address and your network connection and try again.
I've tried opening iDVD from application folder as well as from within iMovie.
It's been a couple of weeks since I used it. Worked fine last time. There was an update that I noticed in the last couple of weeks. Perhaps that's it, but I don't see any other posts.
Any suggestions, please let me know.
Thanks.

Sorry I didn't get back to this sooner.
I own both a powerbook G4 and Mac Pro, and network the two sometimes in order to switch files back and forth as necessary to take things on the road.
Although the iDVD project was exclusively on the MacPro, (Indeed, I even tried starting a new project on the MacPro, but iDVD still wouldn't respond), I believe the Powerbook must have been connected at some point in the process (just hanging out there), and for some reason iDVD got confused. As soon as I reconnected the Powerbook, iDVD was fine.
And then I disconnected the two computers and iDVD continued (and continues) to work fine.
I'm not a programmer. Not sure what happened, but it seemed to fix itself.
PS: For those programmers out there, when I say iDVD was unresponsive, I mean it. I had to force quit every time. It wasn't just that iDVD couldn't find any necessary files.

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