Trouble with iDVD

I am having trouble with iDVD. I work with Final Cut Express HD 3.5 to edit the video, then export the video to a .dv file. I import the .dv file to iMovie HD (6.0.03) add chapter markers there, then send the project to iDVD. When I am finished making menus and adding audio, I quit it, but if I open it again iDVD asks me if I want to update the assets. When I click update assets, I ruins all of my chapter markers and all the scene selections point to one marker. If I don't click update assets, iDVD will ask me to update assets when I burn it. HELP!!! I have searched forums and haven't found anything. The only way the I've restored my markers is by 1) Starting the iDVD project over again or 2) Deleting the iDVD .plist file (which really isn't a solution, because once I open the project again, it asks me again if I want to update assets which…………and the process repeats itself again).
I have posted this before, but I forgot I posted it and Apple archived it. Sorry!!

Hi
I quit it, but if I open it again iDVD asks me if I want to update the assets. When I click update assets, I ruins all of my chapter markers and all the scene selections point to one marker.
This is a BUG in iDVD'08 and onwards.
Only medicine is to never look back - or start a brand new iDVD project.
Sorry - there are no good solution to this as far as I've read this iDVD forum.
Yours Bengt W

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