Redo imovie means redo iDVD project?

After putting a lot of work into getting my iDVD menus right I discover the movie itself is not working. It is skipping etc as another poster found, so I am a) making sure chapter markers are not within 2 sec of a transition and b) wondering if 7 gb on my laptop is enough to process all this, even thought I am saving the movie to an external 250 gb drive.
The question is, can I salvage the iDVD work I have done and pop in to the new movie? Of course setting up iDVD menus etc doesn't take nearly as long as laboring over a 45 minute movie, but still, it's work...
Thanking you,
Lynette

Wow, thanks guys, that's news to me. So bear with me here...
a) The iDVD default appears to be Best Quality (with background encoding greyed out) thus...
b) If I have attempted to create a disk image, but it failed after 4 hours, does that mean all the encoding has been done and I have to click 'Delete encoded assets'? The fact that trying to re-do the disk image starts a whole new 4 hours suggests otherwise...
b) Changing the imovie causes iDVD to ask you a question about updating the iDVD project accordingly - what about if you changed chapter markers in imovie? Does it update your nice hierarchy of menus?
c) Fiddling around, I clicked 'Best Performance and 'enable background coding' - I notice it gave me a message saying I could not do that but proceeded to leave the boxes checked ... and now it's sitting here spinning away...
d) This is a general question - is there anywhere on these forums that tells you a step by step routine maintenance procedure - I know about Chron/MacJanitor, but about clearing caches, plists etc? I know in Windows it helps to do a defrag once a week. This should be a sticky under 'OSX Technology' or something...
Thanks for your help... 4 hours is a loooong time to wait to see something crash, but I have no alternative...
Lynette

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