No audio when burning from idvd 6.01

I have been watching this discussion point for several days as I have had exactly the same problem. I have created a 40 minute iMovie with 10 audio tracks then went to share it with iDVD. The movie came across but the audio didn't - just a horrible crackling noise. I just kept trying and on the 6th attempt it came through with the sound attached - I did lock the audio tracks to the relevant playheads as someone had suggested. But then I came to burn the dvd and idvd 6.01 went all the way to the encoding process then hung on the very last audio encoding forcing me to Force Quit.
So with the newly aquired tip about burning a disk image instead of burning direct from iDVD I first deleted the encoded assets - also kindly suggested on this forum then using Disk Utility I selected my disk image ann hit burn.
Hey Presto!! It worked, I now have all my underwater video set to music that I can bore everyone (except me) with. Thanks to everyone who takes the time to offer help and suggestions on this forum. It clearly is a bug that Apple needs to fix but at least I have been lucky enough to get around the problem.

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