Wont burn onto DVD!!!NEED HELP

i just spent 20 hours making an imovie, and i finished it all up, but when i put the DVD-R in, it shoots it right back out. Also when I click to burn it says i dont have the supported superdrive. The computer is an IBOOKG4. I went online and checked and it says it has a superdrive(DVD-RW) so i dont see why its not working. Did i get the wrong types of disks (DVD-R) or does anyone else know what is wrong?

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Of course you can transfer your file to another computer and because yours is a portable it is so much easier. You need to use a proccess called 'Target Disc Mode'. All you do is, get the two computers together and connect them via a double ended firewire cable. Start your computer while holding down the 'T' key and the Firewire logo will appear on the screen of your iBook. Your iBook's HD will appear on the screen of the other computer. Just open the HD icon of your computer and drag the file out onto the desktop of the second computer. Once the file has finished copying to the other computer just eject the HD icon of your computer and turn your iBook off by holding down the Power button for a few seconds.
This will only work on two Macintosh computers running OSX and it is best to export your project to Quicktime before you try to export it to another computer to avoid problems with different versions of iMovie.
Here's the link to the Mac document on how to do it -
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583

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