Moving edited audio from iMovie to iDVD?

I'm running iMovie HD 5.0.2 and iDVD 5.0.1. I've been taking some old programs off my Tivo, editing out commercials and burning them to DVD.
Everything has been running pretty well (though, of course, there are thousands of features of the programs which I'm not using and of which I'm probably unaware), but I recently had a problem that I can't figure out.
I did search through these discussions and found the answer to a problem I had: I couldn't figure out why several edited twenty-five to thirty second clips created from longer ones (copy and paste), when pasted into iDVD drop zones only played from the beginning of the original seven minute clip. Then, as I said, I found that I needed to Share them in iMovie HD as QT files and then use the Import function of iDVD. This worked fine.
However, I can't figure out how to do the same thing with audio only. When I edit the audio to a shortened 25-30 second sound clip which I want to drag into iDVD for a menu soundtrack, it takes the entire seven minute long audio track.
So, if I need to do a Share, how do I extract just the audio. Whenever I try it, it takes the whole thing. Dragging and Dropping does the same.
Is this even possible in iMovie HD? Can it be used to edit and then save an audio clip as an aiff or mp3 file?
Would someone know what I'm doing wrong?
Thank you.

When you share, select Quicktime, then choose 'expert settings'. Then from that menu choose 'audio only to aiff'.

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