Suddenly iDVD won't burn a disk

I use iDVD a lot. I'm a pro photographer and I love it for showing off work to clients.
I have a disk that I definitely, absolutely ned to get out of the door today and for the first time ever I hav problems with it. The burn gets all the way to the end (about an hour or so) and I get an error that the burn has failed with errors. (It's -34506 - it's supposed to point to an Applescript error).
The disk is a slideshow from iPhoto + a folder of slideshows just created in iDVD. All of them preview correctly. I can burn other disks and if I drop the iPhoto slideshow then I can burn the disk (but I really need the iPhoto slideshow!).
So far I have tried:
switching to save image rather than a real burn
reducing quality (to best perfomance - this burns but the quality is terrible - I need best quality)
trashing the preference file
rebuilding the slideshow in iPhoto including reimporting all the pics
changing the theme
I have run software update a couple of times to bring everything up to date. iDVD is version 5.01.
Project duration is just over 28 minutes. Size is 0.8 GB. 5 tracks, 2 menus, 44 seconds of motion menus.
Plenty of free disk space (93 GB on boot drive, 500 GB on all drives - really).
HELP!!!!!!!

Thanks Len.
Sorry - should have posted back that I worked round this a couple of hours ago.
I narrowed it down to one of 130 jpegs (or more than one - I just know there was something freaky in there). They were all edited files that originated on a D2X and were edited in Photoshop CS2 and all of them opened successfully in a bunch of applications.
Anyway I wrote a PS action that reduced the size of each a little and resaved it. This should make sure that every byte of the file was rewritten. Reimport to iPhoto and rebuild the slideshow. Export to iDVD and burn - and it worked!
Did a search on 34506 and it really looks to me that there is some kind of lurking bug deep in iLife - when an app finds a file it doesn't like it chokes the whole system. What's weird is that the crash isn't in an app that's processing the file directly. I rendered the jpegs into an avi with Fotomajico. This worked fine and the avi played beautifully but iDVD crashed when trying to burn it.
I guess one day there will be an iDVD update and this error will majically go away.....

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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_shot>
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