IDVD won't burn, gets "hung" half way through

I've read all the postings, done what everyone has suggested. I have used brand new DVD-Rs, have plenty of space, and still my project of slide shows (no movies) gets "hung" at about 230 slide encoding/transitions. Help!!!!

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I don't know why these things happen, but quitting them thru Activity Monitor seems to fix the problem & let iDVD move along some better. Now I watch the My Processes list every time iDVD starts up & begins processing; there's not always any trouble, but more often is than not. And it doesn't seem to repeat as iDVD continues, rather it only shows up at the beginning. After the first few minutes I quit Activity Monitor & things seem to continue along OK.
While this doesn't seem the ideal fix, as I don't even know why it happens, this does seem to make some difference.
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