Keynote slideshow glitches in iDVD

When I import a slide presentation from Keynote I want it to be manually advanced. I have all slides set to "on click." I have tried to export as an interactive QT as well as directly into iDVD. Both ways - once the show is imported and I play the show via iDVD either the first three slides get jumped through or sometimes just the first. Once it finishes this quick jumping the slideshow plays fine and advances simply on the clicks. I have switched the slides around and it doesn't matter what slides are there, it always jumps through the first or first three. When exported as an interactive slideshow the .mov plays fine as a stand alone. It is when imported into iDVD that the problem occurs.
BTW there is no audio on this -- so I don't face that issue with this presentation transfer to iDVD
Peace,
Jim

+running Jaguar on an Intel iMac.+
I believe you mean Leopard. Here a cat, there a cat...
This might be a media issue.
Suggest you create a disc image and then burn the DVD. File/Save as Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/18.html
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/image_to_diskstone.html
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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I'm making a slide show in iPhoto. I don't know what sort of engine iPhoto uses to present its slideshows but it looks great. In order to burn a DVD of the slide show you've created you can either click 'send to iDVD' in iPhoto or you can open iDVD and insert it as you would with any movie or audio. Your only other option if you've created your slideshow in iPhoto is to use the 'export' function which is basically what happens when you click 'send to iDVD' - it saves your slideshow as a quicktime.mov file. which you can then drag and drop in iDVD.
I'm fairly savvy about my computer (i'm only a user but i'm not a total fool) and I certainly have no problems with trying to find other ways round this, downloading software, even spending more cash - I realise that computers can't just do anything we want, that there are incredibly complex things happening etc etc...
I guess my gripe is that the whole process seems to be so perfectly set up; you do the slideshow, you send it to iDVD (all the while thinking what a wonderful machine this is) you burn the DVD, and all of a sudden the results are awful - I mean awful! It seems a bit cheeky - the application almost wants you to burn a DVD of your slideshow and yet the results are like something from 1986.
Am I fighting a losing battle? Was this machine never designed to burn acceptable quality DVDs, just joke, toy ones for kids?
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