Photos are fuzzy after I burn DVD

My photos look fine in iPhoto and the iDVD preview prior to burning, but when I looked at the final product all the photos were fuzzy ... out of focus.
This is the first time I've created a project in iDVD. What did I do wrong?
Thanks.

Hi Andrew:
It has several uses, actually. Do you mean one of these?
•About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751
• Burning a disk image file on a CD or DVD in Mac OS X
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006
• How to copy previously-burned DVD-R video discs
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42724
:)Sue

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