"The device drained its buffer without burn underrun protection"

I see so many postings about this but no answers?!?!
I am trying to burn a movie made with iMovie HD to a dvd with my superdrive (details on the drive below). The DVD is Office Depot generic (not the best I know) DVD-R media. I have tried burning it with Dragon Burn and the mac disk utility, and keep getting the same error:
"The device drained its buffer without burn underrun protection"
How do I fix this? The movie is a 1.7 gig .img file . I have also tried burning it straight from iDVD and to know avail, same error. Suggestions?
Here is my drive info.
SONY DVD RW DW-U10A:
Manufacturer: SONY
Model: SONY DVD RW DW-U10A
Revision: A43h
Serial Number: EAB86043
Drive Type: CD-RW/DVD-RW
Disc Burning: Apple Supported/Shipped
Removable Media: Yes
Detachable Drive: No
Protocol: ATAPI
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Internal

Welcome to iDVD Discussions.
How do I fix this?
Suggest you create a disc image and then burn the DVD. File/Save as Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/18.html
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/image_to_diskstone.html
This will isolate any encoding/burning issues you may encounter. Once the disc image is created, double-click the .img and burn the virtual disc that should appear on your desktop, using Toast to burn the DVD. Disk Utility to burn the .img file. Usually, you can select a burning speed in Disk Utility.
There are variations to this process based on which OS X you are using...
Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (maybe the .img) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. A new window should drop down and your SuperDrive tray will open after clicking the Burn icon. Insert a recordable DVD. (Verbatim DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. Select a burn speed. If you hold your mouse cursor over the pop-up it says: "Select a slower speed to work around burn failures," so select 4x or slower for best results. Then click the Burn button.
-->If the virtual disk selection won't allow you to click the Burn icon, use the .img file instead. This may have changed in 10.3.9 and did change in Tiger.
Also, you can use DVD Player to play the virtual disk to check your iDVD project before burning to DVD. Launch DVD Player. File/Open VIDEO_TS (Open DVD Media... in Player 4.6). Find the VIDEO_TS folder and open that. (The audio folder is for DVD-Audio disks.)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006

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