Losing the quicktime movie on export??

I exported a sequence to QT movie, self contained and it appeared to go fine until I went to open it in dvd and it was not there. It was nowhere. On a related note how do you open a QT movie in idvd? I go to open it and it is faded, N/A. Thanks for any help. Sara

Good morning, I figured that my i dvd opening problem was something dumb and simple. I just did not read the instructions first but the other part of the problem is much worse. I needed to burn another copy of a dvd. I go back to do that and The QT movie from the original export on day one does not show with the first or last clip of three. OK maybe I made a mistake and only exported one clip. I tried to export another copy of the sequence and when I go to open the original FCE file from the day before, the original project that I captured from camera, it has turned into one clip from three in sequence . Then I went to export the sequence as QT movie, self contained. It seemed to go fine. I had done it just the day before BUT afterward when I looked for it in the movie folder and with Spotlight it was not there. Instead a file showed up that said: concert20060001kgwv which will not open anywhere?????
I ended up burning the first QT anyway in desperation, the one that only played the middle clip, and it burned with all 3 clips. I go back with curiosity and play the QT movie again and it still only plays the middle clip.
I am tempted to recapture from scratch just to see if I can get it straight after reading all the manuals. Even though this is not an important project but a favor for a friend, I need to know how to do this right for my own work.
Thanks for any help, Sara
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.8) intel duo

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