Various iDVD '08 Problems

I have read the posts in this discussion group and I don't see anyone describing these types of problems. Perhaps you can help.
I have a large (4 GB) multi-slideshow (11) project with over 400 total slides. I built each slideshow in iDVD from the pictures in my iPhoto '08 Library.
While building the project, iDVD crashed twice and I had one kernal panic.
In rearranging the order of my slides for one of the larger slideshows, several small groups of slides were randomly (?) scattered throughout the rest of the slideshow. I didn't notice this until after I burned the DVD. I could have sworn the Preview was perfect for all of the slideshows before the burn.
Trying to burn the project to a DVD was problematic. There were no warning symbols on the DVD map of the project. The first burn ended in a "Multiplexor Error - during muxing preparation (Project Conversion)". Nothing was written to the DVD. The second try ended in a "Multiplexing & Burning Asset Parsing" error. Still nothing written to the DVD but somewhat further along than before. On my little iMac G5-1.8 these initial burns (with encoding) take on the order of 5 hours.
A call to AppleCare Support gave me a few suggestions. The first was to try Advanced > Delete Encoded Asset. This eliminated the background encoding that was probably messed up with all of my editing of the slideshows. It gives a fresh encoding of the project at the time of the burn. This allowed me to finally burn the DVD. But I can't claim victory yet. When I played the DVD on an external player, part way through the last slideshow, the transitions (Dissolve) from one slide to the next were lost and it just displayed a green screen for the entire transition. This was the last slideshow of all my pictures (all 400 of them).
My Project Info window gives me a 100% green bar for Quality at Best Performance encoding. Every line in the Media box has a check in the Status column. Steve from AppleCare suggested changing the encoding to High Quality. From other posts on this discussion board it looks like iDVD will make two passes for High Quality encoding. Would this double my encoding and burn time to 10 hours??? Another suggestion Steve made is to eliminate one of my slideshows, perhaps the last and biggest one. Any other suggestions?
Has anyone else run into these types of problems in iDVD '08? Is this typical for new software?
Thanks for your help,
Rich

Thank you SDMacuser and Jim2006 for your discussion thread. I hope you can still help me with this project.
Item:
When slideshows are sent to iDVD from iPhoto they are rendered out as movies, so they will take about twice as long to encode using two-pass. And since they can have motion, they will benefit from two-pass encoding.
Response:
I didn't create the slideshow in iPhoto and use the "Share > Send to iDVD" command. I built each slideshow within iDVD using the photos in iPhoto. I chose this method because dragging photos from a Finder window into iDVD significantly increased the file size of my project (from a few hundred KB to several hundred MB for the same number of slides). The one slideshow I did send to iDVD from iPhoto is several hundred MB and according to what you say above, it apparently was rendered as a movie before going to iDVD.
Questions:
Do you think this is where iDVD is having trouble with the large slideshow and the transitions for it (remember the green screen transitions)? Should I just pull the last slide show of 400+ slides and burn it as a separate DVD? All the other smaller slideshows (a couple were over 100 slides each) in the project were encoded fine with their transitions. It appears that iDVD is going to the iPhoto Library to grab each slide for the slideshows and then building the transition. For this project, the total is over 800 slides. Could that be the reason for the long encoding time?
Item:
What is taking so long and making the project so large is the transitions. To isolate the problem I suggest first burning this project without transitions to a disc image. If this still fails then just start removing slideshows/images until it works and then you will figure out which image is causing the problem.
Response:
I noticed in the progress window that transitions are encoded and tracked separately from other project items like menus and slides. But the transitions were encoded in parallel with other project items. I will try burning the project to disc image without the transitions and compare the times. But I really like the transitions between slides. They kind of take me back to the old days of a slide projector, screen and trays of slides.
Thanks again for your help,
Rich

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