Problem with Magic iDVD

Everything else on iDVD works except for Magic iDVD. Every time I try to use magic iDVD it stops responding. I already took it to the genius bar. He thought he fixed it, but when I went to use it today, it started doing the same thing again. What should I do? (FYI: I'm a computer dummy!)

I have experience the same slow startup in Magic iDVD and after many startups and force quits I just allowed it run for a couple of minutes until the iTunes library loaded and Magic iDVD started responding again.
In my case the issue seems to be that my iTunes songs all live on a shared networked drive that I access through WiFi. At a high level, is seems that Magic iDVD needs to cache the entire iTunes library in order to burn the dvd correctly later, it is this process of caching my entire iTunes library (60Gig) over the network that causes Magic iDVD to take up 3 minutes before the Audio files display. It is also during this initial load of audio files, each time that Magic iDVD starts, that it becomes completely non-responsive. Also if iTunes is running in the background, it too becomes unresponsive. I got into a habit of clicking the Photos tab just before exiting iDVD so that the next startup of Magic iDVD is normal, but of course, as soon as I click the Audio tab, Magic iDVD will take the 2 to 3 minutes to cache my entire iTunes library over the network before its accessible again.
It seems that Apple's application are just starting to mature to the fact that many users like myself do in fact keep their actual media files on a shared network drives to make the content accessible to the entire family and other Universal Plug and Play Devices as opposed to keeping all media local in proprietary library databases. While I really like Apples iLife suite I also like to have the option of accessing my media content with other applications and devices. While Apple certainly accommodates this approach in the preferences settings for many applications, the actual performance and behavior is sometimes less desirable. E.g. Magic iDVD startup as well as iPhoto ability to bring down the entire OS while in slideshow mode and network connectively is lost. In my specific configuration I use the Drobo and DroboShare connected directly to Apple's Airport Extreme base station.

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