Missing Audio in iMovie 5

I tried to burn an iMove (2hour movie) in iDVD 5 and after 20 hours I gave up. BUT, I checked my movie and it seemed to hang at the point of where I imported a purchased iTune song. and some of the audio was missing after that. All the rest of the audio was imported from iTunes that was imported from CD's to iTunes.
I replace the audio and burned in Yoast and it worked fine.
Has anyone experienced this?
Still playing with this to get it to burn in iDVD. Themes in iDVD are way better.
LargeAl

Hi LargeAl - have a look here, about iTunes-purchased music and iMovie:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300456
Also - the very Maximum length of an iMovie for iDVD burning is a little LESS than 2 hours. that may be your problem.

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