Problem exporting from Garageband 08 to iDVD 08

I used Media Browser to aid me in creating Chapters in my movie in Garage Band 08 (version 4.1.2). The movie plays well under Garage Band. When I then use the Share menu item, "Send Movie to iDVD" to export to iDVD 08 (version 7.0.3), I get the following message. "There was an internal iDVD error during the last action. This is not a movie." Well it certainly looks like a movie to me so I must have a settings error somewhere. Does anyone know what that might be. Thanks.

Under "Applications" select "Utilities" select "Disk Utilities" then open and repair disk permissions.
Do a search For Garageband. Put the files that end in ".plist" and ".cs" in the trash. Restart the computer, and try GB again (it re-creates those files on start up).
Hope that helps.
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