Senior Slide Show w/Video?

I've been volunteered to put together a free slideshow DVD for a local high school senior banquet. It will include the typical images and possibly a quick video clip at the end. I have to burn 50 DVD's to hand out to each student. I have a month to get this done.
I own Toast, the FCP Studio 3, iPhoto 11, iMovie '09 and others. I'd prefer to keep the slideshow as simple as possible and not get into FCP. I'd like to simply drop the images and music in, have some descent transitions and control over text and then burn to DVD's. I'd like the best possible quality DVD's including no blurry images and descent sound.
What combination of apps would be better suited to do this with?
If iMovie '11 would be best then I'll upgrade.
Thanks for any help.

If you're using Text then it's either iMovie or FCP. They also have better sound tools.
Regards
TD

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[email protected] writes:
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