Corruption in slideshow using IDVD

I have a problem I have been trying to resolve for quite some time, without success.
If I produce a slideshow in Iphoto, import to IDVD, add a nice theme header, burn the show, everything goes normal except for the end product. I end up with small glitches or corruption, guess you could say pixelation of some sort in some of my photo's in the slideshow. The corruption consists normally of small bands of pixelation about 1/4 inch high and three inches long, however, they can be shorter and longer.
I am using a G4-450mhz AGP machine, upgraded with a 1.5 ghz giga designs processor, new 8x superdrive (Apple firmware), installed full 1 gig of Ram, still using ATI Rage video card. I have tested the machine with the old cpu but still get the corruption, so that isn't it.
One tip to this problem is that I can take out all the music and the slideshow runs great, no corruption but add back the music and I get it back. Using Mp3's for Audio and I have tried reducing them to very low bit which seems to help but doesn't completely get rid of the corruption.
Have used all types of DVD names and all do the same. Currently using Imation and Verbatim. Using Ilife 05.
Anyone have any ideas?

Believe it or not, I found some DVD-R 1x and 2x Media at CompUSA. I bought the 2x Media because in the past I have had great results with their Media but I haven't seen the 1x or 2x in a while.
Unfortunately, I tried an IDVD burn and it still had the same ol glitches/pixelation in various parts of the slideshow. So, then I used Toast to burn a disk image at 1x I had no glitches, whatsoever.
So, what is the problem with IDVD?
Toast made a great successful burn for me and it plays well on PC or Mac, however, how do you get it to play on a DVD Player for a TV? I get the begining theme but when I try to click to enter the slideshow, I black screen.
I hate to say, but my PC makes slideshows like a pro with very little effort. I don't understand the big problem here with burn speeds or IDVD having so many problems.
Anyone have anymore good ideas? Getting pretty close to solving this I hope.

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