"Persistent" audio in slideshow with Manual transitions

What I want:
Add music to a slideshow, which will loop as the slideshow plays;
AND
Slide duration = Manual
WITH
Dissolve transition.
Is this possible?
When I add audio to a slideshow, the "Manual" option under the "Slide duration" dropdown grays out. I can arrow through the slideshow, but the transitions disappear and the audio skips around.
Thanks in advance.

Hi Scott
And welcome to apple discussions. As soon as you add an audio file to a manually advanced slideshow w/in iDvd'09, guess what happens?
It automatically becomes a fit to audio slideshow.
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Can't do this within iDvd via the traditional approach of making a slideshow within iDvd only (sorry). I'm assuming you already know how to make a slideshow advance manually with dissolve as the transition.
Here's what I suggest if iDvd'09 is the only app at your disposal currently.
Workaround: Go ahead and make the manual slideshow normally (no audio). Now add any music files you wish to the dvd rom section of the dvd. If you plan to use the laptop as the presentation hardware connected to an LCD projector to TV out; then launch iTunes also from the music files contained within the dvd rom section and then go back to iDvd slideshow feature and play your manual slideshow as you wish while music loops in the background. In other words, you'll have to use iTunes and iDvd simultaneously to meet your objective as stated above.
If you'd like I can test this feature later w/in DVDSP.
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/dvdstudiopro/intuitive-design-environment.ht ml
Might take me a while to post the results though. Roxio Toast might also be worth looking into for slideshows.
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