Saved project won't open after beachball

iDVD beachballed while background encoding (after finishing one of the DVDs movies and moving on to the next.) Left it for 2 hours to see if it wouldn't carry on carrying on, but no luck. Force Quit.
Upon reopening the project, iDVD just hangs again. Opening the app itself works, but for the love of JFC please don't tell me I'll have to recreate the project from scratch.
Any hints as to how to repair a project?

Did you ever figure out how to open your file? I have the EXACT same problem - my file is 150MB. Big deadline, flew someone out to work on it and now I'm stuck!

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