Pause/glitch in photo slideshows at chapter changes

Hi all.
I'm a wedding photographer and use iDVD to make slideshows for my clients of their wedding day. I usually make separate slideshows for getting ready, the ceremony and the reception. If a particular slideshow is longer than seven minutes or so, the DVD apparently needs to switch chapters. When that happens, there's a bit of a pause where the photos and the music stop. I have a client now who says her slideshow just stops there all together and they don't get the rest of it.
Suggestions?
Thanks very much.

Slides in an iDVD created slideshow are treated as 'Chapters' and the slideshow is a 'Track'. A DVD is limited to 99 Tracks and each Track is limited to 99 Chapters.
Prior to iDVD 6, ALL iDVD created slideshows were limited to 99 slides for this reason. Starting with iDVD 6, Apple created something of a 'hack' that links tracks together making a longer slideshow. Unfortunately, many/most DVD players don't like the 'hack' and will pause/quit/drop audio after 99 images.
The ONLY safe way to create a slideshow of more than 99 images is to create it as a movie out of iPhoto or in iMovie.

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