Random electronic sound beeps (skipping)

Hi,
I dragged a movie from iMovie into iDVD and I get random electronic sound/audio beeps (skipping) through out the movie when playing/previewing in iDVD. It doesn't happen when playing in iMovie, only in iDVD. Any ideas on how to solve this would be much appreciated. Thanks.

I just made my first iDVD slideshow and I have the same symptoms after adding a soundtrack from iTunes...this is on the finisehed (burned) DVD on various players.
Duncan
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