Import from iDVD image file

I was looking through some of my old iDVD images and accidentally left one of them mounted. I opened iMovie 08 and it instantly recognized the DVD as a Camcorder and gave me a thumbnail of each Chapter and gave me the option to import it into iMovie for editing. I manually chose the chapters I wanted it to import and things were really smooth sailing. Once it was imported I noticed that it didn't include any of the audio tracks. Is there a way to fix this? My current work-around is to convert the .VOB files to an editable format using VisualHub and then import it into iMovie but this is very time consuming. I am assuming that Apple meant to include the import of unprotected DVD's into iMovie otherwise it wouldn't have prompted me to do an import. I haven't tested it with any other iDVD image files yet to see if my problem is isolated but I will report back with my success/failure when I have a chance to test it out. Just thought I would see if anyone else is having this issue.
UPDATE: I just ran across this thread that looks related but it deals mainly with camcorders and not iDVD Imports. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1075399&tstart=30
Aaron
Message was edited by: Aaron Stovall

Ian:
Thanks for the response. I'll look at the Ans 1 tutorial. As for Ans 2, I did choose the new location and I believe Lightroom IGNORED THE SETTING. I say "believe" because I must confess that I did not rename anything in the blue box as outlined and that may be my problem. But I did select the parent folder I wanted the images moved to. (I did not note this in the help question because I couldn't recall or even review the steps I used without repeating the entire Import procedure again.) Fortunately, your post jogged my memory on those details.
This interface and the need to learn how Lightroom does some things is why I complained about the less-then-perfect functionality in my post. Adobe's use of the non-standard navigation interface was a very bad decision, and it leads to much confusion when using Lightroom. The Lightroom design team should have stuck with the OS X navigation interface -- because they did not improve upon it.
Adobe has a long way to go to make Lightroom into the useful product it should have been for a version 1.0 release. It has enormous potential, but for now, it remains too slow and has too many interface quirks and functionality issues to be a reliable tool.

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