Front Row with iPhoto '08

Hello everyone, I recently purchased a Macbook and am trying to figure out how to use all the iLife features. One quirk I have ran into into with Front Row is the fact I can't get it to sync with my music playlist I set in iPhoto. If I play the slideshow using iPhoto, the music playlist plays just fine, but as soon as I get to Front Row, my music does not play. If I put a single song though, it works :S
I have tried googling everything and cannot figure out what to do
Currently I have my music running off of my Windows XP Partition (NTFS), so I can't change the ID tags as someone else suggested.
Thanks all
(Btw im loving OSX lol)

Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
There is currently another active topic about this exact subject going on here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1561425
It doesn't work for me either right now. I think we're going to have to wait for an iTunes/iPhoto/QuickTime/Front Row or Mac OS X update.
-Doug

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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh1655.html
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~/library/preferences/com.apple.itunes.plist
~/library/preferences/com.apple.frontrow.plist
~/library/preferences/com.apple.iphoto.plist
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