Old iDVD projects won't load correctly!

Hi,
A few years ago I bought a Titanium Powerbook and made many iDVD projects with it in iDVD 4 and iDVD 5. I recently migrated all my stuff over to my new Intel Mac. I tried opening my old projects in iDVD 6, but it says it doesn't have the theme I used (Sky), so it reverts to the 'Travel' theme and all the fonts and placement of menus is screwed up. Can someone please help me? I've spent countless hours on all of these old projects and would like to retrieve them on my new Mac. I almost always used 'Sky' because it was a simple theme where I could just drop all of menu screens I created in Photoshop. Re-creating each menu all over again would be unbearable!
Thanks!

SKY is one of the very old themes that dates before iDVD 3.
As you have found out, it is not included in the iDVD versions that come with new machines.
Do you still have your Ti book?
Apple has changed the location of the iDVD themes - in iDVD 4 and earlier, the themes are in the application package. That changed - I think in iDVD5 and they are in another location in the Library.
If you still have your old machine, there is a very slight chance you might be able to use the extracted Sky theme in newer versions.
Otherwise, you need to bite the bullet and redesign your projects. Green linen is fairly plane and you might be able to use it as a basis for your redesigned themes.

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