Spliting DVD in to two chapters

Hi all
I have just done my first iDVD prodjet, which was my daughters prom. I wanted to make a DVD of about 107 digital photos. All went well in doing the design and burning the DVD. Problems started when we noticed an error in some spellings. I changed the error and re-burnt the DVD - DVD+RW, 4.7GB DVD - no problem at that point, either playing via a TV, Windows Laptop or my iMac. Started to go all wrong when I had to re-burn the DVD again, due to another spelling error. This time when we went to view it, it had split the images in to 2 chapters. The first has 99 images in it and the second chapter has the other 8 images.
What has gone wrong. The only change I have made in the settings is that the audio fades out at the end of the DVD.
Any help will do...........
Regards
Lee Harris
iMac 17inch Duo 2GHZ Mac OS X (10.4.8) Have got an eMac G4 as well

Hi Sue
I tryed that.....but its still the same. What I should have said in my first post is that I have two Titles. Title One is split into 99 Chapters and Title Two is split into 6 Chapters.
When played via a DVD player & TV it gets to Title 1/ Chapter 99 then hickup's into Title 2 / Chapter 1. It's the same when played on my iMac. When played via Windows Media Player v10 it halts at Title 1/ Chapter 99
So is it something I have to put up with or am I missing something......
iMac 17inch Duo 2GHZ Mac OS X (10.4.10) Have got an eMac G4 as well - plus a Harley
iMac 17inch Duo 2GHZ Mac OS X (10.4.8) Have got an eMac G4 as well

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