VERY green user needs translation for "foreign" language you all speak

Well Ive read through the forums for a while now (had my imac G4 for about 2 months). Ive created numerous dvd's using slideshows (and books) from iPhoto and exporting them to iDVD 6. So far I am doing a reasonable job with the very limited knowledge I have.
My problem is this... I want to know more in order to make more professional presentations, and by reading the forums I am attempting to do that, but you are all speaking a language I just don't understand! I have problems with the quality of transferring projects from iMovie to iDVD and whilst reading some solutions on here NONE of them make sense to me. I have to have toast??? I have to encode something or other etc etc. How do I ensure my computer is burning at 2x and not 8x?
When I say VERY green user... I mean VERY green. Is there ANYWHERE I could get information about how to make better presentations, how to improve the quality etc in plain speak? What else do I need on my computer to make iMovie and iDVD work better for me? Is there better software that I could use?
Any help you could give me would be most appreciated. But please, keep it simple for my (apparently) very simple mind.

Another question here... when i used disk facility to burn the project, there didnt seem to be any option to burn it at a particular rate? Again, what am I doing wrong??
Follow these instructions:
File/Save as Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164927
This will isolate any encoding/burning issues you may encounter. Once the disc image is created, double-click the .img and burn the virtual disc that should appear on your desktop, using Toast to burn the DVD. Disk Utility to burn the .img file. Usually, you can select a burning speed in Disk Utility.
There are variations to this process based on which OS X you are using...
Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (maybe the .img) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. A new window should drop down and your SuperDrive tray will open after clicking the Burn icon. Insert a recordable DVD. (Verbatim DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. Select a burn speed. If you hold your mouse cursor over the pop-up it says: "Select a slower speed to work around burn failures," so select 4x or slower for best results. Then click the Burn button.
-->If the virtual disk selection won't allow you to click the Burn icon, use the .img file instead. This may have changed in 10.3.9 and did change in Tiger.
Also, you can use DVD Player to play the virtual disk to check your iDVD project before burning to DVD. Launch DVD Player. File/Open VIDEO_TS (Open DVD Media... in Player 4.6). Find the VIDEO_TS folder and open that. (The audio folder is for DVD-Audio disks.)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006

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