Unwanted audio in burned final idvd

Have you ever encountered this problem in iMovie/iDVD? I recently finished editing together a wedding for friends. The timeline is a simple sequence of clips with transitions and background music that I easily imported directly from itunes. When editing, THE FIRST THING I DID was to DETACH AUDIO from my clips and delete it because I don't want background noise in the project. I also MUTED ALL AUDIO in the clips. When I play my timeline project in iMovie...it is exactly as I want it. I go to Share it through iDVD and I set up my menu and burn as usual. HOWEVER, when I play back the new DVD, unwanted audio (pulled from the original background sound of the video clip) creeps in AT RANDOM! Some clips are still muted, others are playing the background audio. What the heck? The first thing I did in iMovie was to detach audio and mute all audio from my video clips. The project is perfect in iMovie, why isn't it burning correctly? Any help would be appreciated :-) THANKS

-Old Toad,
Thank you so much for your reply. I am trying to figure out if I can also do this in Quicktime version 10 because I have a new computer, but I haven't found a property option in this version. When I go to "Show View Options," I can see that there are, indeed, TWO audio tracts present. I need to delete ONE of them. Any suggestions?
Also, since I last posted, I edited/burned a smaller project and I didn't have the same problem "unwanted audio" dvd problem. Therefore, I think that this is a SOFTWARE problem, in which case, I'm just outta luck? Like I said originally, I ALWAYS detach all audio and delete it. The video plays perfectly in iMovie, but burns incorrectly, with the unwanted audio popping in and out, at random.

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