IDVD6 and Toast 7

I have just finished my first project using iMovie6/iDVD6 and have run across similar problems experienced by others. Specifically painful, the audio keeps dropping out of iDVD6 and the only remedy has been to delete the iDVD6 project and start over.
My question is, is it possible to take a project that uses the iDVD6 iMovie6 files /iDVD6 menu/chapter screens etc and export the pre-encoded project to Toast 7 in order to encode?
Thanks,
Jim

F Shippey,
Thanks for the quick response.
I have noticed the audio issues when previewing the project in iDVD. The original iMovie project plays fine. I created a disk image last night so I will check on that once I return home.
I typically burn my project from a disk image in Toast and certainly appreciate you reiterating the fact that using iDVD to encode and burn in one step can be a painful/expensive lesson to learn.
Bummer about the iDVD to Toast to encode. I kinda figured that was the case but had to ask anyway.
The source audio is from a Canon GL1 DV camcorder. I believe the audio is 16bit PCM.
I never experienced this in any other version of iDVD and have been editing with the camera in FCE and iMovie for years.
A patch will surely fix this ..
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