IDVD Slide Show Feature - Audio Issues

Looked around in this forum and did not see this specific issue.
I open iDVD, pick a theme, add a slide show, select the pictures out of the media window, and drag them in. Select a play list out of iTunes, and drag it in. Play the show in iDVD, all is wonderful. Burn the disk, put it in the DVD player attached to the TV, and the slideshow plays, but the music hick-ups at every slide transition.
Any ideas?
This also happened to me every time I tried to make a slideshow in the previous version of iDVD. I ended up creating the show in iPhoto or iMovie and importing that, but I guess I'd expect that if Apple put a slide show feature in iDVD, that it would actually work...

+but the music hick-ups at every slide transition.+
Toshiba DVD player? I've experienced that with those players...
Does it play OK in your Mac?

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+_Creating a DVD that plays automatically when it is inserted into a DVD player_+
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