Choice of Slide Resolution

Having read the HELP Topic with Keynote 08 on Slide Resolution I feel that there's important detail missing. ANYONE OUT THERE WHO CAN HELP BEFORE I CREATE LOTS OF SLIDES??
1) Since (I've noticed) that if I decide to change the slide size of a presentation I'm going to have to rework each slide manually, it seems super important to get it right before finalising a big presentation.
2) Since people with MacBook Pros may travel and encounter a variety of venues (and projectors) it seems super important to take this into account before preparing a presentation.
From the information given it's not clear whether.
a) Its best to choose a large resolution for the slides (at least as great as the highest resolution that you think you may ever encounter) and let Keynote Scale down automatically for smaller displays??? Are there disadvantages to this???
b) It's better to choose a more average resolution and then have Keynote Scale up?? I understand there may be some pixellation but if that's a bad thing depends on your answer to (a).
c) you say that if I want to integrate a movie I may want to choose a higher resolution... Why??? (Isn't the projector the limiting factor?) What are the consequences for the rest of the presentation?
Thanks

thanks everyone - this is all very helpful....
Yes, basically like most people I use 1024 format. HOWEVER there are one or two places with big theatres where I may encounter HD. Also, talking to fewer people, I might be tempted to use my 23 inch Cinema Display (which is basically HD too). Hence the interest in getting it right first time.
If it's better to build big and then scale down then I'd certainly be tempted to take that route. However that might mean building slides that then don't look good when displayed with less pixels. A matter of discipline, I guess, to keep them simple and not too crowded.
Unbelievably, it hadn't occurred to me that some of the slides might be of different proportions!!
Indeed it's complex because no perhaps there is not a single answer. So I appreciate all of your comments and collective experience.
Thankyou!

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