IMovie won't export to iDVD...why?

I have a project in iMovie 9.0.9 and I want to send it to iDVD to burn a disk. It worked fine on another project last week and now it doesn't. iDVD opens, but nothing is there. I can't find the converted project. Where does it get saved? Do I have to manually drop it into iDVD?
I do not want to move this project over to the new iMovie version because I believe it isn't as good as the old version.

Hi
Most probably a corrupted pref file.
BUT
Share to iDVD - is no good way to go - the DVD will not be as good as it can be from iMovie'11 (9.0.9)
Do: Share to Media Browser - and as MEDIUM - HD will not improve either as iDVD does a bad job in Scaling Down.
Then in iDVD - You find Your movie under the Media button (down to the right) and here Movies.
Use a name that is easy to remember - You can change it when in iDVD.
Yours Bengt W

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