Installing iDVD from a disk

Hi all,
I recently put together a startup drive with OSX Lion. I wanted to be able to install iDVD with the rest of the iLife softwares and it is no longer available. I saw a suggestion in these forums to purchase an iLife '11 install disk and install iDVD with that. I purchased the disk on Amazon and am getting this error message:
Not sure what to make of this. Could it be that iDVD cannot be installed onto a disk running OS 10.7.4?
It was suggested to me to try creating a disk image of the the install disk with disk utility and using that to install. I tried creating a new disk image with settings 'image format: compressed' and 'encryption: none' and got this error toward the end of the process after two tries:
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Dennis

Hi Sig,
After talking with Apple Support that seems to be the consensus. They are expediting me another install disk.
Thanks.
Dennis

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