IMOVIE DVD RECORDING PROBLEM

I use Toast 8 to burn DVDs on my Intel iMAC 24" after editing and saving movies in iMovie HD 6.
When I drag the final edit version of an iMovie project to Toast's video pane for recording, a number of earlier saved versions of the same project also load - which I thought had been automatically 'trashed' by Mac/iMovie once a new edit had been saved? (and I cannot find these versions anywhere on the Mac, they only 'extract' and appear in the Toast pane).
So, I then have to identify the latest one listed in the Toast pane (by date and time), out of maybe four or five, and clear the rest before starting record.
How can I load only the final edit version without earlier versions irritatingly appearing in the pane (as if by magic from nowhere)?
Is this a Mac/iMovie or a Toast problem, or have I just missed out somewhere?

Thanks, but iMovie Help doesn't appear to give this advice (?), in fact it says iMovie projects can be exported direct to iDVD (?). I am using Toast, not iDVD, but why is there a difference here?
Also, as said, occasionally some footage does 'strange' things when converted to QT.
Example: Footage transferred from a visually pulsating image (originated on a 1920s 30 line mechanical TV scanner invented by J L Baird) has an acceptable rippling effect seen in iMovie. When converted to a QT (full quality) file the rippling becomes a rapid strobing flicker, ie something is changed in conversion. DVDs made from each - one from iMovie and from QT conversion - produce the same effects.
Any info on what happens in conversion to QT causing such a problem?

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