IDVD project has skips in the music

I have a 40 minute slide show with 500 photos and music - When I burn to DVD in iDVD I have two problems:
1. There are occaisional skips in the sound track when the music seems to stop for a few seconds then recover. This is ok but unprofessional.
2. On older DVD players both the music and pictures "skip" at every transiton. This is just plain horrible.
Questions: Is this show too much info for iDVD? How can I fix it? Is there another program I should be using.
Thank you for your help.

Try limiting the number of images to 99 (or less) per slideshow and you should be fine.
And as for playing on older Dvd Players, make a disc image to the desktop (from the file menu) and then burn the image to Verbatim Dvd-R at 4x. Avoid dual layer as well as plus media since most older dvd players choke on reading this newer media.
Lastly, there are several alternate slideshow apps that work in conjunction with iDvd. These are just a few of them:
http://boinx.com/fotomagico/overview/
http://boinx.com/photopresenter/overview/
http://www.lqgraphics.com/software/phototomovie.php
http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/default.html?gclid=CPy5yebU750CFQYMDQodn 3TtPg
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