Pictures look grainy in PE 11

Complete newbie here, so please bear with me.
I've compiled a short 'movie' of pictures and video clips with Premier Elements 11, but the pictures look grainy! They are fine when I open them with any other program, but they look just aweful in my slide show. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong or why this is happening? I was really hoping to have this done as a gift for Christmas, so time is running out on me.

Thanks, but that doesn't appear to be the problem.
I hit the render button. Still no difference.
I burned it to disk and put it in my dvd player and sadly, it looks even worse!
If I can't solve this in the next couple hours, I guess I'll have to either play it on the TV with great sound/aweful pictures, or run it on the computer with slightly better pics but crappy sound. Makes a lousy Christmas gift for all the hours of work I've put into it!

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