IDVD will not launch

iDVD (7.0.4) will not launch properly. I get the top bar, but no window, and within seconds the beachball starts spinning and I have to force quit it.
Took my MBP (mid 2010) to the local dealer and one of the guys there tried to help. Tried disk utility and verified and repaired both permissions and disk. He also did this through something he called the recovery partition, and tried to reset something he called pram/nvram. Have tried several times to reinstall iDVD before and after this from the App. Install dvd, after first trashing the app and two files in the HD/Library/Receipts folder.
I had not used iDVD before on this particular MBP.
Any ideas?

In Lion the Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
The reason iDVD launched in your other account is that thre was not iDVD preference file there because you had not launched iDVD there before.
Once the library is visible you can go to your Users/Home/Library/Preferences folder and find the com.apple.iDVD.plist preference file and delete it. Then launch iDVD so a new pref file will be created and iDVD should open.
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