Iphoto to imovie to idvd should work right?

After importing my photos and little AVI movies from my Canon digital camera to iphoto, I decided to make a slightly cooler DVD by adding more transitions, chapter titles, video and sound effects. So I imported them into imovie. Everything looked great and I pushed the create idvd button. I made cool menus and dropped slides into the right menus and drop zones etc. Previews played back fine. I was ready to burn. That was three days ago!!! Four successive attempts to burn the DVD failed.
First a multiplexing problem. I seemed to fix that by taking stuff off my startup disc. Keeping 26 gigs did the trick.
Then there was this burning error that I still cannot figure out.
I tested my burner first by taking one of the mini movies from my imovie and burned a DVD in the finder. It burned fine. The file I burned just could not open! I keep getting the following quicktime error: my "quicktime.mp4 contains invalid MPEG-4 audio, see below....An audio elementary stream descriptor is corrupted. Expected type=0X65736473 ('esds');found type=0X000000001 instead"
I have considered taking each movie I imported from iphoto and converting it with my Quicktime Pro (to what I'm not sure yet) and then putting it back into imovie and then IDVD once again. Also, I have considered starting over with iphoto again. This time importing them from imovie directly rather than exporting them from iphoto and then importing them into imovie. (By the way should the frames be black in the timeline? Only the movies are visible. They all play fine on the viewer but for some reason that does not seem right.
Anyway, shouldn't iMovie be converting ANY movie imported from iPhoto into a format that iDVD understands? Also, if everything previews fine in IDVD, shouldn't it be burning fine too? I mean these programs are suppose to be seamless right?
I have the option of omitting iphoto and i movie altogether by importing the pictures and movies into FCE2 and then burning it in toast. Is that an easier solution? Is there any formula to get the best DVD from digital photos and movies from a digital camera? Anyway, any ideas and thoughts would be most welcome.

I ended up re doing the entire project again. This time though I cropped the photos in iphoto first then exported them as dv files to imovie. This seems to have worked though I was very disappointed with the performance of Imovie and idvd. The transitions between photos in idvd sometimes were yellow particularly the one that the picture shrinks and fades away. Also the pictures seem to be perfectly clear then turn fuzzy. This seems to be a change from earlier versions of the program. I am going to experiment with importing photos info fce2 and directly into idvd. it may be that imovie and idvd are just inferior programs to something like fce2 or dvd studio pro. Good luck
Theo

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