Problem when burning idvd project

hi,
im using imovie 06hd and idvd 06 with the latest up dates.
im trying to put a video film together of my little cousins christening.
everytime i try to burn my idvd project it goes through all the process of encoding the video and audio which takes a long time. then when it gets to the burn section it stops and it says error multiplexing and burning.
the duration of the film is 74 mins. i tried it on best performance and best quality but still no luck
is it really that hard to burn a dvd project. this happened to me 4 years ago on an older mac and older imovie. this time i thought they may have sorted out there issuse with burning dvd.
i have over 40gb of space left on my mac
am i missing anything.
i tried to burn it in toast but after the encoding an error appears.
is there anything i can do to get my project on dvd
cheers
lib

hello,
i created Disk Image last night and everything was ok. iv got over 40gb space left. plenty.
i then opened toast and tried to burn it. again no joy. iv got toast 9. under the video section i select VIDEO_TS FOLDERS. it still wouldnt let me burn it.
iv just ordered some new blank dvd verbatim to see if these work. iv been doing some research and alot of people say these brand are good. so ill give them a try but i have my doubts.
my content is 3 audio tracks from my itunes, about 20 photos and 70mins worth of video.
please could you ask me if there is anything else you would like to know.
thank you so much for your help. just hope i can get this to work

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