Image incomplete

Hi,
Thanks in advance for any help. This is the first time I have any problems with iDVD burning discs.
I have an 86 minute, 2.6 gb iDVD movie made in iMovie, all 06 versions.
It ejects disc and says "current operation", "image incomplete", after normal burn time. I have burned 100's of discs and have never had this problem. I tried cleaning up permissions, restart, log out and back in, clean cashe, I also freed up some hard drive memory. I have tried both internal and external DVD burners. I forgot about the old and tried method of deleting preferences and did this too, and I am trying a new burn. I did not change anything before this problem happened.

Hi
Did You select an encoding version that can handle > 60 min eg Best (High) Quality.
Do You have minimum 25Gb free space on internal (start-up) hard disk ?
Has to. iDVD can't use any other as scrap-disk neither can Mac OS.
*Not knowing the origin to Your problem* - General approach when in trouble is as follows:
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Hard disk is untidy: Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
• Delete iDVD pref file - *or rather start a new user/account* - log into this and re-try
• Program miss-match: iDVD 5.0.2, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK - DON’T work under Leopard
• Program miss-match: iDVD 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Program miss-match: iDVD’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• iDVD (08) v7 Locate theme folder. Move out iDVD1, iDVD 2 and eventually iDVD4 folders to desktop - re-try
iDVD 6.0.4 and iDVD 7.0.1 are compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
iDVD pref file resides: Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences
and is named: com.apple.iDVD.plist
While iDVD is NOT RUNNING - move this file out to desk-top.
Now restart iDVD.
Yours Bengt W

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