Urgent, need to burn dvd by tomorrow, idvd hanging in step 2

the dvd i made, when being burned, makes iDVD freeze somewhere in step two, and i do not have any idea as to why this is happening.
the dvd isn't a regular dvd from iMovie though. one part is exported from iMovie and has a scene selection. then after that there are 5 other movies on this dvd. the main menu has 7 buttons. one to play movie, one to scene selections for that movie, and 5 leading to other menus for other movies. these menus have a button that plays a MPEG-4 quicktime movie.
I am not sure what relavence the above information has to my problem, but i'm sure there is something. i'd really like to have this dvd burned and in the hands of some friends by the end of tomorrow.
can anyone explain what is going on? this isn't the first time i've had idvd problems.

You may have done some of this so sorry if the answer is too low level but my strategy for iDVD is:
1) Make sure there is around 20GB free on the internal HD and if possible have the iMovie projects on that disc. It may be worth shifting some items to an external disc temporarily.
2) Shut down/Restart without any applications running.
3) Run Mac Sweeper which you will find on http://mac.softpedia.com/get/System-Utilities/Mac-Sweeper.shtml
carrying out all the optimize options including repair permissions and then (I'm not sure it may be done in one of the others as well) under clean, empty caches.
4) Launch iDVD and the project
5) (My favourite but not strictly necessary) "Burn" a copy to disc to hard disc using the workaround known as Easter Egg or "Hurz and Pfurz" on
http://homepage.mac.com/geerlingguy/macsupport/mac_help/pages/15-burn_idvdother.html
iDVD5 has this built in.
6) Go to bed and have a good night's sleep.
7) When the run is finished (always for me 1 hour in less than 8 hours) examine the DVD image and play it using the DVD player in the applications folder. If you actually burnt the DVD you are finished.
8) If and when satisfied and burn a copy using Disc Utility, full instructions on
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42724
but you just use the second half to burn the DVD. I have also taken to burning the DVD without any other applications running as I think this causes bad spots on the disc.
Remember when burning the DVD you are writing over 32,000,000,000 individual bits and you cannot afford too many ambiguous spots.

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