IDVD burns wrong music but iDVD preview plays correct music

I'm creating my second DVD-based slide show by exporting the slide show from iPhoto to iDVD. (Am using iDVD version 5.0.1.)
When I preview in iDVD the correct music from my iTunes plays. After I use iDVD to burn a DVD image and then try to test that via the DVDPlayer, the music from my first iDVD-created slide show plays instead. (I've also burned an image to DVD and played on a hardware DVD player with same problem resulting.)
Of course I have no idea how iDVD is getting so confused on this matter.
Is this a known bug? Does anybody know what is happening here?

For what it is worth, I am having a similar problem and have spent coutless hours to resolve. No Solution Yet. When formaing a Playlist from iTunes everything plays as it should. When the playlist is selected for a iPhoto slideshow, music plays as it should.
When exporting or going to iDVD as a slideshow, Theme music can be selected and it plays correctly. Audio is selected in the custom slide window for the playlist. The goal is to have music play during an entire iDVD slide show. I have never been able to have more that the first iTune on the playlist play music. I have contacted Apple many times on this issue and no one can solve it. Looping makes no difference, re-installing all of the iLite software does not help, nor anything else. I even installed Roxio to see if exporting iPhoto with a playlist would make it ok and it does not. Roxio is removed.
The only way I know, so far, to make this all work is to select a iTune that will last through the entire iDVD. I believe that there is a serious bug here as no one at Apple has a answer either (after numerous calls) so the problem is still there.
Does anyone have a solution? Thanks.
PeterLT

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