Burning a NetInstall to DVD

This is at last officially acknowledged, but only briefly, by the new edition of the System Imaging guide.
I have tried this twice now, with PowerPC-based systems running Mac OS X v10.4.4, and it failed both times.
This worked with Mac OS X v10.4.2 and stopped working for me with Mac OS X v10.4.3.
Can anyone else help with this? Confirm or refute my findings?
Thanks in advance!
P.S. We really need this feature to work. We'll have to escalate it to Apple for an ASAP fix. Does anyone have an alternative software that can reliably produce a functional restore DVDs. I don't think BootCD is sufficient for our purposes and I don't think NetRestore's NetInstalls work on DVD.

The iLife suite is set up so you ultimately go through iDVD to create a DVD, whether you start with iPhoto, iMovie, etc.
If the pictures are in an iPhoto album, I'd finish the slideshow there and then import to iDVD. That's quick and you can add multiple songs for background.
But if control over the audio is important, then you may want to import the photos into iMovie, where you have much more control over the audio and the timing of audio and the slideshow. Before you import 345 photos, do it with a much smaller batch and get a feel for the workflow (eg, Ken Burns on/off and photo duration). You can select groups of photos and apply a transition to all of them.

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