IDVD won't open a second time!

I create movies with iMovie HD (as I am really very disappointed in the newer version), then move it to iDVD. Everything works fine and runs great. I can even make a disk image and burn a DVD. BUT...... when I close iDVD and then try to open it again, it refuses to open the movie I just made! This happens about half the time I make movies.
Examples:
~ I made a very large movie of a vacation we just took (in iMovie) and it would not even import into iDVD... I had to break the movie up into three different movies so I could!
~ The last one I made is very small (smaller than many of the others I have made in the past). While it goes in fine and I have successfully made a DVD, it now refuses to open at all in iDVD!
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Anytime an application does not work properly, you need to delete its preference file. Close iDVD. Go to your Home folder (YourUserName)/Library/Preferences/com.apple.idvd.plist
Drag this plist file to the trash. iDVD will create a new one when you relaunch it.
Reopen iDVD and see if it is more stable now.
If not, close it again, and open Disk Utility. Select your computer's drive by its name, and choose to 'repair disk permissions.'
Now try iDVD again.
If still not working properly, you should log onto your computer as a different person/account.
If it still does not reopen properly, you need to reinstall iDVD.

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