Best way to compile multiple slideshows?

I've finally finished scanning 200 old photos of myself and my future wife for our wedding slide show. I've organized them into 5 albums (baby pics x2, growing up x2, us together). What I would like to do is have 5 different themes/slideshows, but on 1 continuous loop (it will play all nite by the bar, dinner won't be stopped). I do know how to create/edit/export in iPhoto, but I am trying to figure out what is the best way of combining. Drag the created movie file into iMove (is there any quality loss, encoding the photos twice?), or maybe export each into itunes and make a looping playlist. Any thoughts?

I guess I meant how to find an insertion point. QT X lets you trim the current movie, but as far as I can tell, no way to copy/paste a selection. I THOUGHT Apple offered QT 7 Pro with the release of Snow Leopard on install discs, but apparently not, and I believe the editing features are only on the Pro version.
My fear is when you export a slideshow as a movie, it is compressed. While I could import that movie into iMovie, and then string all 5 slideshow movies together, it would be compressing it a 2nd time. Unfortunately the Media Browser in iMovie shows only the albums and not created slideshows, and I prefer the options I have creating slideshows in iPhoto over iMovie.
I am currently exporting the slideshows under best compression h.264, and will import in iMovie using the best import setting as well. Hopefully that will allow for the best possible quality. I also have a paid copy of VisualHub that also might do a good job of tying the slideshows together. I actually tried exporting the slideshow to an uncompressed movie and the 6 minute slide show filled up my hard drive and caused some larger system problems that I was thankfully able to resolve.

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