Burned movie clips jittery; slideshows won't play

I made an iDVD 08 project with 13 movies and two slideshows. The movies (all .avi) are all under five minutes and there are about 80 pictures in one slideshow, 30 in the other. Both slideshows are imported from iPhoto 08.
Some of the movies stop and start, some quit the DVD altogether. The slideshows do not run at all - they quit the dvd.
Where do I start with problem solving? Is it the media, the file format (.avi) or something else?
One more thing - I made the entire project with 'Magic iDVD'.

Start out with these basic remedies. Quit iDVD and delete your iDVD preferences. To do this, go to your username> library> preferences> com.apple.idvd.plist. Delete this file. Then reopen iDVD; it will create a new preference file with all of the default settings.
If that doesn't help, do a verify and repair of permissions using Disk Utility.

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