Best Reliable way to make slideshow for PC presentation

I am working with a company that is making a presentation slideshow with music to play at the beginning of an event.
Right now there is a lady doing it on a pc with PowerPoint.
Is there a nicer way in my mac to do it?
It has to play full screen, via a pc, thru a projector.
thanks Laura

Laura:
If you don't need the Ken Burns effect it's my opinion that you'll get the best quality slideshow by creating it in iDVD. Open iDVD and create a new project. Select your theme and click on the "+" button at the bottom to create a slideshow section. Open it, double click on the slideshow button text, and go to the Media/iPhoto pane. There you can select an album or individual photos and drag into the slideshow organization pane. Select your slide transition and music playlist from iTunes (again the Media pane). If you want iDVD will let you add titles and/or subtitles to selected slides. Again that's just my preferences.
Numerous iPhoto users have reported that the syncing of the slideshow to the music selected does not work as intended. It seems to be a bug in iPhoto. (With the new Quicktime update that may have changed, I don't know).
Good luck.
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