IDVD preview not what is burned

Ok, I give up! This is my 8th attempt with this project!!
I'm trying to burn an iMovie project that is about an hour long. It includes one chapter marker and a short (50 sec) intro movie in the autoplay. In the preview all is fine. The project starts up with the short movie then goes to the menu and the selected chapter plays fine. Only after I finally burn the DVD (which takes anywhere from 10-13 hours to complete) It auto plays with the main movie, instead of the intro and when I go to the marked chapter there is no audio. I've tried tweeking things a bit (extracting audio, etc). On the initial attempt I believe the intro was there, but the main movie was out of sync. I've burned other smaller projects with no problem. HELP! I keep all my iMovie projects on an external hard drive.
Chad
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) iDVD v4.0.1
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Should it take a 66 minute iMovie
10-11 hours to burn?
On a PowerBook G4 with iDVD 4 - Certainly!
Does motion have to be on for autoplay
to work?
Probably
I've done it both ways. And even burned the
disk image with Disk Utility with the same results.
I just can't figure out why the preview works
perfectly, but not the "burned" DVD.
How does the disk image play with Apple's DVD Player application? You may have an issue with your hardware DVD player.
Preview uses your RAW source data and is really 'for position only'. It DOES NOT guarantee the encoded disc will operate the same way.

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