Trouble opening up old iDVD projects after upgrading

Forgive me if this has been discussed but I took a quick look through the messages and I didn't find what I needed.
I have some old iDVD projects that do not open under iDVD 6.01 (yes, I have the update.) It is as if my old themes (specifically "Baby Blue") have been erased. Is there some way to download them from the Apple site?
Also, if I may, I want to pick a nit about iDVD. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it is wrong for the program to force you to use a pre-defined theme, even if it is customizable to the point of non-recognizition. If you somehow loose the old template or move the file to a new machine with no old templates, you're screwed unless you want to go through all the work of redoing your project.
Thanks.
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Many people have had troubles with older projects opening in iDVD 6...including my one left-over project that was finished.
This is one reason you should finish a project, create a disk image, save the disk image, before "upgrading."
If you somehow loose the old template or move the file to a new machine with no old templates, you're screwed unless you want to go through all the work of redoing your project.
If you creat an Archive of the project, it should contain everything you need.

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