Photos oddly colored in iDVD

I asked this question in the Final Cut Express forum but received no answers, so I'll try here. I have iDVD 7. I made a video in Final Cut Express, exported it as a QuickTime movie, and dropped it into iDVD, which automatically created several screens to deal with all my scene (chapter) markers.
I created a custom Theme by dropping digital photos into the backgrounds of the Scene Selection pages. The photos looked fine in both Photoshop and iDVD. These same photos were also used in parts of the video.
But when the video was burned to a DVD, many of these photos on the scene selection screens now look oddly colored, the colors overly saturated and exaggerated, for example some of the people look badly sunburned.
The odd thing is, as I said these same photos are also in the video, and they look fine there; it's only on the menu screens created by iDVD that the colors look odd.
It seems to me that iDVD is processing the colors of these photos differently than Final Cut Express does. Is there some way I should be preparing these still pictures before I drop them into iDVD, so that the colors will stay normal?
Tom

Bengt, I have three TVs available to test my DVDs. Only on the smallest and cheapest do the photos look acceptable, and only barely. On the other two TVs, and especially the largest and most expensive one, they look overheated and oversaturated,quite unnatural.
I would agree with you Shippey that it is a monitor calibration issue, but I have two large monitors connected to my Mac, each with different calibration profiles, and the photos look fine on either one of them. They also look fine in the video. Only on the iDVD scene-selection pages do they look odd.
So, here is what I'm trying right now: I went back into iDVD and replaced all the pictures with ones that have been partly desaturated in Photoshop. I went into Photoshop's Hue/Saturation control and pulled down the saturation until some of the color was removed from each picture. Then I put those pictures back into the scene-selection screens of iDVD, and I'm presently burning a fresh DVD (actually a disk image, to start with). I won't know the results for a few hours yet, because I'm using the Professional encoding setting and it takes a long time for iDVD to process that way. I'll report back the results after I burn a new DVD later today and try it out on the TVs.
At least I have learned from you that iDVD is not supposed to require any special kind of Photoshop file, or some "broadcast safe colors" version of a file or something. It is supposed to do it correctly just as I did it--straight out of Photoshop. Why it doesn't do that is still the question.

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