Photo titles clipped in iDVD

My wife just got a new iMac and is trying to get her iPhoto slideshows exported to DVD. All seems to work fine except when played back on TV the photo names are clipped off at the top of the screen(all the TV's in the house do the same) We have the safe area checked and are working in 4:3 ratio. It's very important to have file names included as she is a photographer and this is how her customers order prints. Any ideas?
1.33 Ghz Powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.5)

cwolsen,
Here is the updated procedure - it will give you a black border (or whatever color you use for the mask):
Here is a procedure I put together several years ago to do what you are trying to do that has been changed for QuickTime Pro 7.x. (It may require some modification on your part.
1. Create a 640 x 480 black mask with a slightly lighter black 320 x 240 center in Photoshop. Save it as a JPG file.
2. Open your DiMage X movie in QuickTime Pro. Open the saved mask in another QuickTime Pro player.
3. Select the mask clip and edit->select all and then edit->copy
4. Select the DiMage X clip and then edit -> add to selection & scale
5. Next, select Window -> Show Movie Properties
6. Find the mask video track (Video 2).
7. Click to highlight video track 2 and then click Visual Settings.
8. Change layer setting (bottom center of menu) to 1 (it must be a larger number than the actual movie video track (Video 1)).
9. Click to highlight video track 1 (this should show the original movie).
10. In the Offset window, set the offset to 160 x 120. This will move the movie to the center of the mask.
11. Make sure all tracks are selected in the check boxes.
12. Export it as a DV stream. Bring it into iDVD.
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