Project duration too long at only 68 minutes?

Hi, I can't figure this out.
I just upgraded from a PowerMac G5 to a MacPro. Just got it running last night so hopefully I'm overlooking a simple step because I'm new to iLife 09, although I've been using iLife and iDVD for quite some time.
I have an iDVD project that I've been using repeatedly for at least a year or more. It is a DVD porfolio. Duration is about 87 minutes and no problems on the G5/iLife 08.
Now with the upgraded computer and software, it keeps telling me that the project duration is too long for a single layer disc. I've taken the content down to 65 minutes! Quality is set to Best Performance.
Am I missing something else? This same exact project was fine on the old computer.
Thank you very much, time is of the essence for this one unfortunately.
Eric

Beverly is correct, and for future reference, what Best Performance does is encode while you work to make the whole process faster, but as a result the DVD must be shorter because iDVD doesn't know how much to compress the DVD before it completed. High Quality and Professional Quality both wait until you're ready to burn to begin encoding. High Quality takes less time, but the quality is poorer the closer to 120 minutes the DVD is. Professional Quality takes longer, but it encodes in a higher quality for fuller DVDs. (Below the quality setting in Project Info, the colored bar shows you where the quality begins to degrade for each setting and where you are on that bar.)

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