Quality slider fine adjust gone?

You used to be able to hold the Control key while adjusting the Quality slider to set the quality to an exact amount, an integer percent. Is this gone in QT 7? Without this, it's hard to repeat the same value again.
Thanx,
Russ

So far I do not see how to bring back this function.
Seems crazy they would remove something so benign.
AudioHijackPro will capture system audio with a high degree of control.
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/
Jumping to top and bootom of page. Hold option key- four finger swipe up and down. YMMV depending on swipe preferences.
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Premiere Elements 6 and 7 - I am trying to burn a DVD. According to the documentation there is supposed to be a Quality slider that appears when you uncheck the "Fit Contents to available space" checkbox. No such slider appears. It does not matter whether I am burning to a file or to a disc - no slider. The file is only 2 minutes. There is a Disc menu.
I had this same problem in PSE 6, but the quality was very bad (cross fade transitions very noisy, blocky looking moving footage). It looked like the invisible slider was set all the way down by default.
So I downloaded a Trial version of PSE 7, opened the same project - and there was a Quality slider. I burned a test DVD with the slider all the way up and it looked pretty good. So I bought PSE 7, installed it, ran another test - OK. Then I did a few edits, added some Ken Burns style pan and zoom moves and a title. Now again there is no Quality slider. It looks better than PSE 6 but not as good as it should. I have tried DVD-RW and DVD+R media, restarting PSE 7, changing presets, reloading the old project that worked before, rendering the timeline, no luck.
This feature really needs to work, as the only reason I bought this software is to make DVD slideshows. I have tried making an MPEG2 file and using other software to make the DVD from it, but it does not look good and takes hours for the other software to transcode it. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks for your fast reply Paul LS.
No, the slider is not greyed out. It is just gone, even with Fit Contents to available space deselected. I have selected DVD. The project is only 2 minutes.
I use JPG originals that are scaled to 1600 in the maximum direction by Picasa. This seems to work well even when I zoom in to 200%. My system is XP Pro with 2G of memory, core 2 Duo at 2.4 GHz.
The only thing I can think of is perhaps PRE 7 is using a system codec for the slider function and it got over-written by some other software. I use Individual Software Passages Express, Pinnacle TV, Magix, and Picasa. But there were no installs or updates between the time the PRE 7 Quality slider was working and when it disappeared. Just some edits and photo scanning. It is very odd that when you make an MPEG 2 file or a MOV you get pages of options, various audio quality settings, CBR vs VBR etc. but for DVD all you get is a Quality slider.

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Anyway, I'm starting a similar slideshow project. I think it's easiest to simply edit the photos in iPhoto. Photoshop is on a different level from iPhoto and obviously has capabilities iPhoto lacks, but I think it should be fine for just editing digital photos.
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I'm not sure what to tell you about pixel ratio and RGB vs. CMYK....
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So far I do not see how to bring back this function.
Seems crazy they would remove something so benign.
AudioHijackPro will capture system audio with a high degree of control.
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Jumping to top and bootom of page. Hold option key- four finger swipe up and down. YMMV depending on swipe preferences.
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