IDVD project won't open

I've been working on an iDVD 06 project which is relatively complex - a number of submenus and short movies (it's 4.4Gb archived). iDVD 06 won't open it: it opens the iDVD window, takes a long time loading themes then the header bar says Loading Project, but it doesn't get any further and then crashes. I've tried trashing all the iDVD-related preferences and caches I can find to no avail. I've tried opening the project on another machine (an iMac G4) and the same problem arises.
I really don't want to have to start this project again from scratch - any ideas? Or if I do have to start from scratch, what should I avoid doing to prevent a recurrence?

Welcome to discussions, Tom
Does this project reside on an external drive that is not formatted OS X extended?
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