Quick DVD Option won't work?

Hello,
I went into my iDVD 08 and was going to do the quick DVD option, you know, where you just record direct onto a DVD.
Well when I clicked on the button in the opening screen something odd happens...
The window closes and then if you watch the icon in the dashboard it sorta flashes and then shuts down. Not so much a miserable problem but still one that I would like to fix and handle.
So I was wondering if anyone has run into this problem and if so what can one do?
Thanks

This frequently helps solve some problems. Quit iDVD. Search for the file named com.apple.iDVD.plist and trash it. (A new one will be created next launch of iDVD.) Or look in: User/Library/Preferences. This may solve project loading errors too. Restart and use Disk Utility to Repair Permissions.
You'll need to reset some Preferences.

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