IMovie still too big

I thought I had solved my problem by splitting the movie in part 1 and part 2.
I took the first part (after I cleared the rest of the movie) and tried to SHARE it with iDVD,
But I still get the message that it is too long for a DVD.
This first part is now only 1 hr 10 minutes.
Can anyone give me more help, please.

Project info choices are: Best Perf, High quality, Prof. qual. I picked Best Performance,
Part 1 of my iMovie is 83 minutes and 4.59GB
Using iMovie HD 6.0.3
When I use SHARE I am still informed that project is too big when I attempt to burn it.
When I close iMovie and go thru iDVD and try to bring it in then my iMovie is greyed out
My iMovie has an icon with the black star inside - that is what I'm to use, right?
I must be doing something wrong! Any more ideas?
Thanks for all your help so far.
Got to get this movie off my HD - it's taking up too much room! Only have 25GB open, could that be related to my problem?

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