Music Is Distorted In Slideshows

Anytime I create a movie and burn it in iDVD, I have to drop the movie in as a slideshow in order to keep the aspect ration and not have portions of my picture and text cutoff on the tv. The problem however is that when I play my movie the music is always very distorted, as if it was recorded at too high a volume.
In the slideshow option I have moved the volume all the way down to (min) but still find I get a distorted playback sound. Can anyone offer up suggestions?

Try this. Make your first slide a movie or short video clip. If you do not wish to add a movie in this particular spot then drop in plain black video footage at the very start of the sildeshow for at least 3 seconds. Come on back if this fails to resolve the issue and I will post additional suggestions in terms of making your slideshow within iPhoto > iDvd ... or ... iMovie > iDvd.
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