Slide Show: Move, Scale Pictures Within Frame

If I want to throw some pictures together that I took at an event into a bonus slideshow for when the DVD is idle, I'd like to be able to position them properly in the video frame.
Currently, the slide show editor is quite limited, to the extent of the built in pan and zoom effects.
I'm not asking for a full-featured image editor, we already have plenty of those. I just want to make the image composition look halfway decent in the frame, without editing each image in Photoshop.

this may be more of an iDVD issue. Sorry - I will re-post there - However, any help is always welcome.
CD

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    this may be more of an iDVD issue. Sorry - I will re-post there - However, any help is always welcome.
    CD

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