IDVD won't launch?

My Mac Mini came with iLife5 preloaded but I never used anything. I then bought a copy of iLife '06 and just loaded iPhoto6 which I used for about a year. About 6 months ago I bought an external hard drive and made it my boot drive by cloning everything over to it with Super Duper.
Two weeks ago, wanting to burn an iDVD slide show I created a slide show, and clicked Export To iDVD. When things on the screen didn't seem to match the directions in my iPhoto 6 Missing Manual it occured to me that the manual was refering to iDVD 6 and I was using iDVD 5. At this point I got out my copy of iLife 06, inserted it into my CD drive and copied the iDVD 6 application onto my external drive.
Today I attempted to export a slide show to iDVD from iPhoto 6 via the Share/Send to iDVD command. My computer ran for quite awhile then it appeared to have completed the export. Trouble is iDVD didn't open as the manual indicated it would. So I tried to boot iDVD. While the iDVD icon did bounce twice when I clicked it iDVD did not open. So I checked this site for suggestions, deleted the com.apple.iDVD.iPlist file and repaired permissions. iDVD still does not open.
I used the finder to check things out and I found that it shows iDVD installed on both the original Mac Mini 40 Gig hard drive and my 160 Gig external drive.
Anyone know what's going on here and what I should do to get iDVD to launch properly?
Thanks!
Win

John,
Actually my external drive is my boot drive. I cloned the contents of the 40 Gig hard drive that came with my Mini onto the external drive and then made that drive the boot drive. I'm not positive about this but it seems to me that the copy of iDVD 5 that I cloned to my external did boot although I never more than took a glance at it as I didn't own a DVD burner at the time. I think the problem began after downloading iDVD 6 which I assume overwrote the copy of iDVD already on the external drive via the cloning operation.
Win

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