*~*Slideshow exports with music but blank white screen!*~*

The details:
I'm using iPhoto '09 on a mid 2009 MBP, Lion 10.7.2, 2.35Ghz, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB, 4GB RAM DDR3, 320GB HDD but now 108 GB free.
I have 176 photos in the slideshow, all .jpg. Using the Scrapbook theme with a "Custom Playlist" (selected from iPhoto's Slideshow music browser/settings menu thingo) of 3 songs -one is the theme's default song, the other 2 are mine from iTunes Library.
Exporting to .m4v using the "Display" quality setting. Takes forever, about 1.5 - 2 hours, at the end in the final export there's either a blank white screen and the music works, or it all works up to one point and then the screen goes white and the music chages abruptly to the nexrt song.
Am I doing anything incorectly, or is there something I might be able to try in an attempt to fix this?
Advice or help so, so greatly appreciated

Yes the track details were written in English, thanks for your response. And they weren't tracks with DRM.
I ended up solving it ... can't be specific about what resolved the problem because I tried multiple things.
I heard there was a problem with iTunes 10 and iPhoto 'talking' to eachother, so I copied my songs over into the iPhoto theme music folder (in Application Support >> iPhoto Slideshows) and selected them in iPhoto by clicking "Music" and, this time instead of clicking iTunes, I used the default themes folder/drop-down selection. I then exported via clicking the Export >> Custom Export button and selected .mov with Apple Intermediate Codec, changing the FPS to 25 (someone said to do this in another thread, it wasn't about the same problem as mine but I tried it anyway. I'm not a techie person but it also may be important to justify the choice of 25FPS by saying I'm using PAL ... I think that has something to do with the FPS?!)
Anyway, after all that, the final export played back perfectly! Hope this is able to help anyone out there who may have the same problem. I exported two different slideshows, one had about 150 more photos than the other, so I can safely say the successful export wasn't a fluke!

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