Archiving photos- What is the best way?

I would like to copy my photos from iPhoto to a DVD to create a permanent record that can be accessed many years in the future. I have a few ideas but I'd like to hear what solutions others have found.
I bought some Kodak Preservation DVD's, which are supposed to last at least 100 years, and burned my images from within iPhoto 5 to DVD's. I noticed that this records folders as in the iPhoto Library. There are no readily visible thumbnails to browse for individual images. I suppose this would be good to restore iPhoto if needed.
I then highlighted all of my images in the iPhoto main window and burned them to archival DVD using Toast. This seemed to work well other than a few of the thumbnails displaying only as a generic "JPEG" icon ( Why is that?).
I can open these files in Preview and the file sizes seem right and the EXIF data seems to be intact.
It appears that my kids would not need iPhoto to view these images 30 years from now.
Does this seem like a viable approach ? What am I missing?
Thanks in advance.
iMac   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   Nikon D50

wild bill
Select the Photos you want to archive in iPhoto and use the File -> Export command. In the dialogue, you can specify many things, including using the iPhoto titles as names etc.
Export the files to a folder on the desktop, then burn the files using the Finder.
This will give you a DVD of photos that will require iPhoto for viewing, and not require third party apps.
Regards
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