Players won't play DVD

I've seen this problem discussed a little in this forum, but hope to get some more ideas. I made a DVD containing a manual-advance slideshow with about 20 TIFF files in iDVD that plays fine in the Mac DVD Player. But it won't play in either of our two DVD players -- an old GE model and a brand-new Panasonic model. The old one just says, "This disk cannot be played." The new one shows the opening screen with the "thumbnail" of the first slide, but when you try to advance it, the player says the disk can't be played.
I found one post that said manual-advance may not work, but I haven't wasted another DVD yet to try auto advance.
Any ideas would be welcome.
eMac   Mac OS X (10.3.9)   1 Ghz G4, 512MB RAM

Have you tried all the buttons on the DVD player remote?
Manual advance slides are actually chapters.
That said, it's been my experience that some DVD players won't advance the slides.
Auto advance should be OK for you.

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