Idvd slideshow problems

I created a slideshow in iDVD using many photograps from a recent vacation. I used audio from itunes and it all looked flawless in the preview. When I burned the slideshow dvd the music was garbled and jumpy and some of the photographs were superimposed upon one another. Also, other clicks and visual disturbances happened throughout while viewing and ultimately my dvd player just stopped playing it.
Yikes! Any ideas what happened?

Music and iDVD-built slideshows have had problems at times, at least in iDVD5.
Some users have pasted thier music together in garageband instead of using playlists.
As for the movement/uneveness, I have no idea.....maybe if you fix the sound it will fix the duration?
Also try using "Save as Disk Image" and preview that before burining the save image with Disk Utility. This is fully encoded, so it is much better than iDVD's "preview"
john b

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