Losing sound when I burn DVDs

Until today, I was always able to use iDVD 6 to create a DVD from any supported video format I happened to have on my Mac. Now I suddenly have problems. The project appears to encode and burn correctly, but when I attempt to play the DVD, either in the Mac or on our DVD player connected to the TV, the sound drops out somewhere in the first four minutes and doesn't pick up again.
I've tried re-acquiring my video sources, I've tried two different brands/kinds of DVD disc (Verbatim DVD+RW and Philips DVD+R) and nothing seems to help.
The only other factor is that the superdrive in the Mac has rejected a couple of the DVD+RW discs I've tried, as if they're not readable - it just ***** them in, chunners for about 15 seconds, then spits them out. It doesn't do this to all the discs though.
Any ideas?

Many thanks for your suggestions Rich ... they didn't solve the problem but it's the thought that counts.
My source files are all recordings of broadcast TV, saved off in the AVI container format - I don't know what's inside the AVI containers because I didn't set up the recordings in the first place. All I can say is, it was never a problem until 2 days ago.
I have now solved the issue, so I'm recording it here in the hope that it will save someone else some heartache in the future.
Taking the logical approach, I went back over all the things that have changed recently about my iMac setup. The only thing I could think of was the Perian prefpane which I added to my System Preferences. Perian (v1.1.1 installed) is a codec pack for Quicktime.
I uninstalled Perian and ran a Spotlight search to ensure everything associated with it was cleared out (it also has its own plist file in the user library folder). Perian has an 'uninstall' button within itself but this only deactivates the prefpane ... to completely eliminate it, I went ctrl+click on its icon in the main System Preferences window and selected the option to remove it.
With Perian completely eliminated from my system, I performed a re-boot, and then went straight to iDVD and re-created, from scratch, one of the projects that failed on me yesterday.
Lo and behold ... it worked.
To be absolutely certain, I'm going to go back and re-create a couple more projects and make disc images of them as well. If this turns out to be a false dawn, I'll post back here again. Otherwise please assume the problem is fixed and:
BE AWARE THAT PERIAN IS LIABLE TO MESS UP iDVD 6.

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