IDVD Project Burning very slowly

I just got an external DVD burner (an LG 18X DVD±R Model GSA-E40L) and am currently trying to burn an iDVD project to it. However, it's already been
over 2 hours and doesn't even looking remotely close to being done. I thought the 18x meant that the burner was fast, but I'm sure not seeing it. Any ideas on what could be wrong? Are there some setting I need to change to optimize the burning, or is the burner just bad? Does anybody know if theres poor compatibility between LG burners and macs? The guy I spoke to said it should work fine, so could iDVD be the culprit? My movie is only 1:10 long so I would rather not wait an entire day to create a single disk.

So you're saying each one of my DVD's could take 2-3 hours or more to burn?
Nope - the burning process - even at 4x - is fairly fast (like 15 minutes). It's the mpg-2 encoding iDVD has to do that is slow. If you need to make several copies of a disk, make your first 'burn' from iDVD to a disk image file (an option under FILE) and then use the disk image file with Apple's Disk Utility to make all the copies you need at about 15 minutes each.
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