Final DVD made in iDVD skips when played back

Made slide show in Final Cut Express. Exported as a QT movie and placed it in iDVD. When I play it back it pauses and skips in certain spots. I also have video on this movie and it paused on it also.

The usual causes would be poor media (like Memorex or TDK) and/or burning at a high sped (8X or higher). Use Maxell or Verbatim and burn at a max of 4X.

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The drive itself works fine. Tested about 15 "homemade" discs and they all played normally.
I don't think it's the DVD brand. The at-fault dvds are Panasonic but my other Panasonic-burned dvds work okay. And they're all DVD-Rs.
I have 30g of hard disk space.
I checked the burn speed and it is set at the default ("Maximum Possible"). I've used this setting on my other DVDs which play fine, but maybe it could be the culprit?
The only other issue I could figure out is that the DVDs that won't play all have the same iDVD menu template. Perhaps there is a glitch with that menu?

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Hi r
No this is an often described problem.
To make a DVD playable to as many devices as possibly there are some alt ways
to go,.
1. From iMovie to iDVD: I don't use the Share/Export to iDVD from within iMovie.
I drop my movie project icon (with a Star on it) into the open window in iDVD.
2. After done necessary adjustments I go to File/Save as a Disk Image.
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Thanks for the help. I looked into all these possible issues:
The drive itself works fine. Tested about 15 "homemade" discs and they all played normally.
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I think that is what he is saying Alex...
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