IMovie won't burn a DVD

Can anyone help me with a camcorder problem? I have just bought a canon 25i camcorder, mainly because it is compatible with mac and supposedly with iMovie/iDVD.
I am able to import DV tapes into iMovie, and get them into iDVD, but when I ask it to burn to disc it won't comply.
I am able to get roxio toast titanium to work, but this takes literally hours to 'encode' prior to burning.
My mac is a G4 iMac 1Ghz with 768mb ram. I am running the latest version of Panther.
Has anyone had similar problems and solved them, am I missing something simple?
Thanks,
John.

Duane,Well you are right iDVD 5 will burn to DVD-RW in accordance with this article; I just tried it on my TiBook. Reading the article you quote it says MacOS X supports DVD-R and that third party software is required for DVD-RW (although it does not state this explictly). I am 90% sure that before I upgraded from iDVD 3 that DVD-RW would not burn from iDVD directly I also recall it did not state a specific error but only continued to ask for a blank disc. I can remember this being a pain when I first flashed my Superdrives firmware as RW are great for trialing a disk before wasting DVD-Rs. Can anyone confirm?

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