Better slideshow product out there?

Just looking for a little advice from those who have working with picutes and other software as well. I'm new to saving and displaying pictures on my computer. I bought PS3, thinking it was the best software out there in saving and presenting pictures (slideshows). In terms of a slide show, I will have to say I am not that happy with it so far, but again I'm new at it.
I guess my big question is (since I'm wanting to put together more slideshow presentations with music on to a DVD), what is the best software out there to perform this task. I liked how PS3 allows you to build your own slide show with different transitions and to manually fit the slides to the duration of the music, but after that I wish it was better at burning the material.
Any opinions are appreciated and will be helpful.
Thanks,
brad

Hi Bil,
First off - I'm not a guru, so may not explain this very well or completely accurately.
Every image file (jpg etc) has information embedded in the file. The information may include the date the photo was taken or scanned, the last date the image was modified, the type of camera that was used to take the photo, keywords, a caption etc. The keywords and caption are generally "written" into the image file by software like Adobe Photoshop when you assign tags or captions. Sometimes you have to use a function called "write tag info to files" for this info to get embedded in the image file (in Adobe Photoshop Elements in the dropdown menu when you click File). This file of information in the image is usually referred to as metadata. I'm not sure what the difference between "exif" data and "metadata", but in Proshow they call it "exif data" and it is the "exif macro" that can display the image information in your slideshow when you type the appropriate macro in the caption textbox.
If you've attached captions to your photos in Adobe Photoshop or some other software, this macro in Proshow is really useful because you won't have to retype all your captions in Proshow. It's also useful if you want to display the data a photo was taken again without having to manually create a caption for each slide.
I hope this helps.....
And in a final note, after 2 days I finally got a response from the Proshow email tech support and they confirmed that there's no way to add a caption with wrapped text. I'm pretty disappointed about that, since otherwise the software meets all of my needs. The only way around it is to create my special wrapped caption on the image itself, but that's kind of putzy.
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