No iDVD menu on desktop

When I double click on iDVD icon ( in Dock or in Apps folder ) iDVD shows
on Menu Bar at top of screen and window opens with "open project"
"new project" and "open tutorial" choices. But when I select any of those
three, the window goes away but nothing else happens, no iDVD menu
appears. The program doesn't freeze, I can still pull down 'file' and select
"new project" etc, but with same results. I have sucessfully used iDVD 3 or 4
times in the past few months, the last time was about a month ago. This is the first time I have tried it since then. I have tried two things: I put the iDVD preference file from the library folder in the trash. And I copied the iDVD
application from my Mac HD to my internal 200 GB drive and tried opening it
from there. No change. I am a novice so I am flailing around here. Any help?

My standard list of things to do first...
Run MacJanitor (free download) to do all the Unix Cron Maintenance scripts.
Run Disk Utility (Applications -> Utilities) and repair disk permissions on your start up drive (typically your internal drive). Also verify any other drives mounted on the system.
Run Preferential Treatment (free download) to check for corrupt/damaged application and system preference files.
Run Cache Out X (free download) to clear all system and application caches.
Reboot your Mac.
Yours is certainly a new one!
Patrick

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IMPORTANT - DVD is as standard only SD-Video and can not be any better whatever tools used.
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