Imac monitor wont sleep

Hello,
When making a DVD with iDVD I cannot get my monitor to sleep. It would be REALLY, REALLY nice to be able to do this as it can take hours to encode a DVD. I have tried everything except sprinkling holy water over the keyboard.
With a PC using WINDOWS there was actually a PHYSICAL button that turns OFF the monitor. It was idiot proof and WORKED EVERY TIME NO MATTER WHAT APPLICATION I was running. MAC is this to much to ask for ? Some times LOW TECH works better.
Carmine

Carmine,
I've had trouble using iDVD if my computer goes to sleep. From Apples instructions:
"iDVD uses a high percentage of system resources. • Quit other applications. • Do not let your computer go to sleep mode. • iDVD may fail to burn if it goes to sleep"
I had to use "Sleepless" ,after making many coasters,:
http://www.alxsoft.com/mac/sleepless.html
to keep my G4 tower awake so it would burn and yes there is a physical switch to turn off my Cinema Monitor. If sleep gives you problems burning you might have to turn your monitor down in System Prefs. usually just the contrast will do it.
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