IDVD photo slideshow problem

Dear All,
I just want to burn all my photo edited in Aperture into a disc DVD. I choose iDVD but it seems it can't achieve what i basic need.
Since I have around 200pics photo and i try to separate it into several slideshow folder created in iDVD. However the problem is when I play and finish the first slideshow folder, it can't auto switch to next folder but turn back to the root menu. Is there any way I can fix the problem since it must for sure to create any inconvenience to my friends with click the remote button and select it one by one.
Thanks for your great help

I like to make DVDs of my best photos every year. Here are my experiences.
1. Last year I ended up creating the slideshow in iDVD ('06), saving it as a disc image and burning it from Utilities. The visual quality was good - better than with any other method I tried including using iMovie HD - but there were drawbacks. Only one transition was allowed throughout and every transition and every slide had to be on screen for the same length of time (I chose 2 seconds and 5 seconds respectively). Creating a sound track with multiple pieces of music and sound effects to go with it was a painstaking process.
2. After that project was finished I upgraded to Leopard X and iLife '09 and started another project in iMovie. I ran into problems creating a clear, crisp DVD. I experimented with different methods of sharing - iTunes, iDVD, Media Browser, export using Quick Time, and export movie. The first four did not produce good results: either the product itself had images that were blurry with jagged edges, or the blurry, jagged edges appeared when I dragged the icon into the background of the theme window in iDVD. Only 'export movie' gave acceptable results: excellent visual images when played using Quick Time Player, or dragged into iDVD and then burned to a disc.
3. Last week I upgraded to Snow Leopard - version 10.6.1 and that upgrade has turned out to be a mistake as far as this slideshow/movie project is concerned. Shortly after the upgrade I added a few more photos to my iMovie project and shared using 'Export Movie' as usual. Disaster! Colours will not hold through certain transitions and effects like Ken Burns and picture in picture. Reds turn to blue before and after some transitions and 'flashes' of colour appear on images to which I applied the Ken Burns effect. Last night I was on the phone for 1 3/4 hours with an Apple tech support person. She had me try everything - creating a new user, trashing and reinstalling iLife '09 iMovie, trashing plists and caches. Nothing fixed the problem. Finally she gave up and said that she would do more research on her own. If she doesn't find a solution she will refer the problem to Apple engineers. She will get back to me.
Note: Sharing through iDVD - letting iDVD render the movie and create a new project on its own produced excellent visual results. The blurred, jagged images occurred when I 'burned' it using 'save as disc image'.
At the moment I am stymied. If anyone has a fix for me, please help.

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Feeding iDVD high-resolution still images doesn't help quality.
the final disk distorts the pictures in the slideshow, they look as though there are moving parts in some of them, a sort of waving shaky effect ..
When sharp, still images are used you will see interlacing effects that make parts of images flicker. Images on a TV set are interlaced - meaning you see two slightly different images (called 'fields') that alternate at a 1/60 second rate making the image appear to 'shimmer' of 'flicker'.
(interestingly enough when played through the iDVD the show is beautifully rendered with no distortions, so there goes the theory aboout monitor vs television being to blame).
Sorry, but using the preview function in iDVD does NOT represent the final quality of the DVD that will be produced because it uses the uncompressed source material - think of it as a 'for position only' view of the project.
iDVD produced DVDs WILL look better on a conventional CRT TV set (which has less than 640x480 pixels in NTSC) than it will on a computer monitor (with many more pixels) full screen.

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