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I'm running Mac OS X 10.4.11 on a PowerBook G4 with and I noticed that if I assemble a slide show and then click on the slideshow in iDVD'08 that iDVD shows a list of the slides (with blank thumbnails) and says "generating thumbnails...", but it never returns and the Activity Monitor shows the ThumbnailServer process using all sorts of CPU. The thumbnail generating seems to never end and no thumbnails are shown in the iDVD thumbnail window.
Did you already drag and drop the plist for iDvd to the trash and Restart the computer (yes/no)?
com.apple.iDvd.plist
Use your Finder to copy and paste the bold item above and drag the item/s to the trash. A full Restart is recommended.
If that fails then read this if you haven't already:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6859461�
Good luck.
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