Multiplexing/Burning for 6+ hours?!!

This is now an iDVD v. 4 project.  I had bad luck with the same one using version 7.0.4 which burned and seemed to play well enough after an endless 6 hours of encoding until one of the movies (3 30 min. movies encoded at 'professional' level for longer length) stopped midway through.  I got a "cannot play disc" message in DV Player and it quit.  This was a project I was supposed to be making a bit of money from....I figure my accumulated time  now comes to less than $2 an hour..thanks Apple!  
In iDVD v. 4 I used to be able to make very nice DVD projects.. I have no idea why this is messing up.  After encoding assets for about 5 hours, it's now been at the multiplexing and burning stage for over 6.  I see advice in the discussions to trash the plist and what not, but none of this was something I did in the past, and nowhere in iDVD help do I remember seeing cautionary advice. In this version, I see no option to save as a disc image...maybe there's another way? What is going on?  It's now past bedtime here in NYC, and I'm just going to leave it going, but expect to find a "can't burn disc" error message, and yet another of many coasters so far in the morning. 
Yes, I am using Maxell DVD-R media.  I am burning at 4x, and I have 9 GB free space on the Macintosh HD I'm running the project on.  I'm wondering what's going on?  If I quit the project, I seem to run the risk of losing all those hours of encoding.  Maybe the app is corrupted?  The HD Disk Utility check says the drive seems to be OK.  What if I uninstall and then reinstall iDVD? 
I'm wiped out...

Thanks, OT,
I've seen your similar posts with the same advice.  In idvd 4 there is no File menu option to save as Disk Image, and in fact, I never used to use it.  In v. 7 there is the option, but the resulting DI had problems...see below. I didn't know DVD Player could read a disk image...will try that, too. 
When I closed down the above all-night running multiplexing, there was a little message stating that my DVD drive wasn't supported by Apple.  And sure enough, the About This Mac menu said the Pioneer 110D didn't, ether.  Funny, because I used it all the time to copy DVDs.  The thing was, I reconstructed the idvd project in this computer in IDVD 4 after not being able to complete it successfully on the other machine using v. 7.  That machine has been having hard drive issues, and I'm not able to repair with Disk Utility.  I'm going to try installing a new HD and reinstall all the '08 iapps, plus DVD SP 3, which offers even more versatility. 
I kind of take exception to Klaus's contention that my G4 and OS 10.4 are obsolete.  The software and machine worked fine, as was intended.  I'm blaming the failing boot drive at this point.  In other words, idvd 3 or 4 did what it was supposed to do, except that later versions like 7 offered more user input.  His point that I ought to have more HD space is well taken, but again, the system I had with my Sawtooth, and it's 20 GB drive produced a good number of dvd projects some years ago. 
I also have a '91 Corolla, which runs fine, gets me from points A to B economically and comfortably.  I'm sure there are those who would think it obsolete.

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