Slideshow creation

Hi,
I'm trying to create a slideshow that will play on a DVD player. I do not have easy access to a DVD Burner so hopefully I will be able to burn the final product to a CD and then play it. The slideshow will, hopefully, contain pictures w/ the Ken Burns effect, short video clips, and text.
What I need is a program to create a slideshow with the above things and, most importantly, I need the DVD/CD to be set up so at the end of each slide, it will freeze on the current frame until a button is pushed on the remote. Preferably, I would be able to go forward or back in the show via the arrow buttons on the remote.
Is this possible in iDVD or any other programs? If so, which ones?
Help greatly appriciated,
maeks84
eMac Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Away from the computer for a couple of days myself.
Someone else can jump in here if I am totally incorrect, but the primary purpose of a DVD format as used in a DVD "player" is to play files that have been transformed into "movies". Movies might have chapters for ease of navigation or restart partway through the content, but to ask iLife to create a product that is a forward/backward/stop/start product is to expect a boat to also have wheels and roll on the road. You might be able to make it work, but it will take a lot of extra work. And from what I have read on this forum about "rules for chapter markers", if you use transitions and titles around all of the images, you will have trouble spacing out and placing a chapter marker at each image (which is the only way I can see being able to control reverse navigation).
Powerpoint is a product that is used to do exactly what you seem to want to do, but typically the filesizes are much smaller, the product burned to a CD or jumpdrive, and the entire thing viewed with the assistance of a computer as the interface. You may view DVD movies on a computer, but for the most part, the end destination is a TV or other projection device. You cannot "play" it on a player as that is not what the program is intended to do. It is mostly used for information, lectures and presentations (which actually sounds like what you want to do).
Also, from what I have seen from most DVD players that are connected to TVs, hitting the pause button can often cause lines or distortion in the image. It is not necessarily clear.
Not really sure what else to recommend.
Terri

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