Help. HD DVD not recognised by Toshiba player

I am burning a 40 second slideshow with no sound onto a looping HD DVD for display on a widescreen. I have burnt around 9 DVDs so far with a variety of settings, but the Toshiba HD-E1KY player I have to use recognises none of them. It simply brings up a box saying this is not a DVD.
Looking through the forum it seems Toshiba players may be an issue, but has anyone any advice on some simple settings that work with DVD SP 4.2.1
ANY suggestions welcome as I dont have enough hair left to keep ripping it out at this pace.

How did you create the HD DVD and how did you burn it?
Apple implemented some of the HD DVD specifications but not all of them and it seemed to be more of an issue that Toshiba had to update Firmware on some machines to make it closer to HD DVD. Does the message box say not HD DVD or not a DVD? What files/folders are in you build file?

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