Problem burning to external DVD

I'm trying to burn my iDVD project to an external DVD burner (brand-new Philips model that's supposed to have all the bells and whistles). I went with an external burner since the Pioneer drive that came with my eMac croaked and I couldn't find a good replacement. I was able to burn a disk yesterday with no problem, but today, after I made some changes to my movie project and wanted to burn a new disk, it keeps trying to talk to the (broken) internal drive instead of the external one. I know the computer recognizes the external drive because it asks me what I want to do when I insert a disk or when I unplug and plug the USB cable back in. Is there some way to disable the internal disk drive so iDVD won't keep defaulting to it? This is driving me crazy because it worked perfectly yesterday, and I didn't do anything different this time around.
Any suggestions gratefully accepted, because right now I want to throw the whole system out the window.

Hi
USB Cable ? Does this works ? Previously ?
Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows:
Many possible origins. Most common:
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Hard disk is untidy: Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
• Delete iDVD pref file - *or rather start a new user/acount* - log into this and re-try
• Program miss-match: eg iDVD 5.0.2?, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4 - is OK
Yours Bengt W

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