My iMac "locks up" when I try to burn a slideshow made in iMovie to a DVD

When attempting to burn a slideshow I created in iMovie to a DVD (after exporting to iDVD), the video portion encodes without incident, but when the audio starts to encode, my computer "locks up." That is, the burn "wheel" stops turning, and I get a revolving color wheel at the pointer. I then can't exit iDVD, access any other application, or even shut down the computer. In fact, the only way I can shut the computer down is to turn off the power (i.e., disconnect the power cord). What makes this all the more frustrating is that I had no trouble of this kind the first time I tried burning a DVD from iMovie (a couple of months ago). It worked fine then.
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Thanx. I guess that's a possibility. I waited for about an hour, however. I'll give it another try and see what happens.
It's likely not stalled but rather still encoding.
Takes a while & requires patience.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302988
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/idvd/id2-4.html
Hope the above is Helpful.
It's likely not stalled but rather still encoding.
Takes a while & requires patience.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302988
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/idvd/id2-4.html
Hope the above is Helpful.

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