I hate to sound like a "Pilgrim" . . . but . . .

I've seen many references to something called an "easter egg" and it's going right over my head! I seem to recall hearing the term before . . . and I'm NOT referring to fond memories from my childhood!

I, too, have been having one heck of a time with iDVD 4.0 - crashes and burning into infinity - it seems to be contagious! (Should it be - that this inquiry have been made before, please excuse my ignorance - as I've not been able to find a definition on any of the threads, here!)

Perhaps, my esteemed (and far more knowledgeable), fellow, forum members would be so kind as to enlighten me, nonetheless?

Also . . . I must really be missing something: I (supposedly), have about 56 gig of hard-drive . . . but, despite dumping almost every file I've created (including most of my music files), I have only around 23 gig available! I've optimized AND re-installed all my system software - yet, that only yielded me just under 10 gigs of "new" space!

I mean . . . besides Photoshop and Office Suite, I only have (for the most part), the programs that came with my MAC - with the obvious exceptions of drivers and such for my peripherals (scanner, printer, Wacom tablet & Zip drive).

Could this the norm?

And if I may . . . isn't 512 meg of RAM enough to "power" iMovie & iDVD? I've heard that "maxing" out my RAM could cause more problems than it would solve. Is this really the case?

Oh! I've also read (on here), that I should quit all programs, while running iDVD. Again . . . forgive me . . . but, does that include iMovie?

Thank you, very much, for any suggestions/explanations.