DVD with powerpoint slideshow/movie

I'm trying to make a DVD for someone for their birthday, i've already added a movie from my iPhotos, but am trying to additionally add a powerpoint slideshow to the DVD. I saved the powerpoint as a "movie" as recommended when I looked in iDVD help. However, when I try moving the file into the page i want, a tab keeps popping up saying that the file is unsupported, and is an unknown format. It is saved under Movies, and I have no idea what the problem is.
My second problem was that when I was making the movie in powerpoint, I timed the slides to be shown for certain amount of time. I wanted to add a single song, instead of a soundtrack to the slideshow that would loop as it plays. However, powerpoint will not let me do that either. All of my songs come up grey. I'm not sure if its because they are in mp4 format, but if thats the case, I don't understand why it is not compatible for an Apple-tailored program.
Can anyone help me please?? I need to finish this before friday, and would appreciate ANY help, i am clueless!!!
thank you!!

What I would do is export each powerpoint slide as a still image (640x480 TIFF). Bring the images into iMovie to create a slideshow and add the audio there.
You could also use the images to create a slideshow with music in iDVD.

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