Video looks fine in preview... goes mosaic, loses audio on DVD????

I have 3 and 1/2 hours of video edited in FCP and burned on a dual-layer DVD with iDVD. The video looked good in FCP and looked fine in preview in iDVD. The DVD burned without any pop-up warnings of problems, BUT when I put it in to check it, it goes bad about 40 minutes from the end. The picture goes mosaic (it looks like a satellite picture losing signal - sorry I don't know the exact technical term) and the audio completely disappears. On the menu page if I forward to the last chapter the counter (minutes) keeps counting away but we never leave the menu page and I can't move to other chapters.
There aren't any edits or transitions where the video goes bad. I've tried re-saving to QT and reburning with the same problem in the same place. Anybody have any ideas on what's causing this and how I resolve it?

Hi
Just thinking. Can iDVD 5 handle DL-DVDs OK ?
I would.
• Use iDVD'09
• Pro-encoding Quality
• from FCP - Export out as QT.mov file, NOT Selfcontained, NO QT-conversion.
• Low free space on internal boot hard disk gives all kind of strange resulst
My mimimum 25GB for 4x3 SD video and x5 for 16x9 HD
I use
• Verbatim DVD-R
• DVD-R
• burn speed set down to x1
Yours Bengt W

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