DVD shows blank pics during playback of slideshows

I am trying to create a DVD using iDVD to playback pictures. I have 3 slideshows and whenever I preview the DVD within iDVD, the pictures show up as expected. Whenever I burn the disc or create a disk image (I did this after 3 unsuccessful burns) for playback, my main menu shows up fine but when I go to select a slide show to play, all I see is a black blank screen. I set my slide show to transition every 5 secs and I see the DVD player (Oppo BDP-83 and Apple's built in DVD player) counting down the time and moving the cursor left and right appropriately moves to the next photo...albeit blank.
I went ahead and did a workaround by creating the slideshows as serperate movies in iMovie, but would like the DVD I'm making to have the flexibility to have the pictures controlled via a remote too. Any help?

Hi
There are many things with SlideShows and iDVD
• 99 photo limit per show
• use of transitions most often results in bad quality
• manual shift of photos - no not with iDVD
(I would assemble a PowerPoint serie for manual directed shows)
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