Sound Problems [Jumpy Transitions]

It was recently my birthday, so to remember the special day I taped my party on my friend's DV Camcorder. I have been editing it in iMovie for the last few days, adding transitions, applying the soundtrack and cutting out the bits which had me dancing horrendously! I finished it last night and left it till this morning to pop onto iDVD to add a menu.
I jazzed it up and added my flashy menus etc and clicked 'Burn'. Then I waited for the DVD (It took it's time!). When it finished I went downstairs and popped it into my DVD Player. All was fine, the menus working correctly and it looked great! Then I clicked 'Play movie'....
It started off with my little intro and that's where the problems began. The trouble is that the soundtrack transition was really jumpy. I had some music in the background of the intro which then fades out as the party sounds fade in. Here, the music gets really messed up and plays incorrectly. The video is not altered in any way though. This happens in quite a few other transitions aswell and also when the music just fades out. I checked to see if iMovie was the culprit but when I watched it on there it was fine. I then changed the soundtrack so that there was no overlapping of tracks (i.e. the track after waits until the first track has faded out before starting), but still the same problem at the end.
As I last resort, I then tried to just save the video as a file then burn it to DVD, thus bypassing iDVD. Still the same problem.
I'm really at a loss as to what to do. I need to sort it out soon as my friends keep pestering me to see it!
Also, please feel free to ask questions as I may have missed out a core piece of information unwittingly!
Any Ideas?

Although stuttering and jerkiness occurs in both PAL and NTSCtype projects, PAL projects seem to have unique issues with audio.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2010839&#2010839
In PAL projects, audio fades sometimes return to a high volume as they end. It's been a particularly nasty problem for it only appears when the project is exported; the iMovie playback is fine so the problem jumps up to bite you when you least expect it.
One solution that seems to work is to use third-party software to capture the audio played in iMovie, then import THAT audio file to the project and mute the problematic audio tracks. Software to do that includes Snapz Pro X, Audio Hijack, and WireTap.
It also may help to improve the quality of songs you import iMovie from iTunes. Burning the songs to Audio CD seems to help. If your problem involves only stuttering and such, that's the solution I'd try first. I'm beginning to suspect this step might avoid lots of problems later in the project.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2206508&#2206508
Karl

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For me "extracting audio" sometimes results in the audio becomming out of sync with the video, also doing the "update" mentioned above does not fix it for me; I must be doing something wrong?
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Most of us apply a string of transitions from left to right i.e. between clip 1 and 2 then between 2 and 3 then 3 and 4 and so on. The audio glitch will occur in say transition 2/3 because there is a transition immediately before it in 1/2 and likewise a glitch in 3/4 because of the transition immediately before in 2/3 .
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If you have to do it in segments still work backwards but spit clip at playhead as above when approaching an already applied transition in order to create a "transition break".
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