QT Movie won't drop into iDVD HELP!

Of course I'm down to the last minute again:
I've got a 540 KB QT Movie exported in full quality DV from iMovie 3.03.
Upon opening iDVD 2.1 and attempting to import or drag and drop the QT movie from my desktop, iDVD appears to do nothing and a button for my movie DOES NOT appear anywhere in my project.
7.6 G available on my hard drive right now. Can I delete the still images from iPhoto I used to make my iMovie to free up hard drive space? (Or are they still linked through some sort of database type of mechanism?)
Any speedy help is greatly appreciated!

I've got a 540 KB QT Movie exported in full quality
DV from iMovie 3.03.
Full quality DV should run about 13 GB per hour. - That's about 3.6 MB per second.
If what you have is 540 KB, what you have is a Reference Movie and NOT a Self-Contained QuickTime movie. If you have done anything to the pictures/clips used to create this Reference Movie, it won't work.
Please verify the size of your movie.

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I'm getting under a serious time gun here.
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