Three issues with slideshows...

Question

Issue 1: I can select 1 song to play as the music for a slideshow or 1 playlist, but I cannot select (like shift-click in normal applications) multiple songs or playlists. Why is this???
Issue 2: I would like to chain together multiple slide shows into 1 - i.e., allow one component of a slide show to be another slide show. This would make stringing together slide shows with different characteristics easier.
Issue 3: I would like to be able to put title slides into slide shows without having to build them in PowerPoint or Keynote and then saving as JPEG and importing into iPhoto. Just something simple would be fine, but I can imagine a "Word-art" like capability with a photo (transparency would be nice) in the background.
Anybody else see the need for these?

Answer 1

1 - yes you can only select one song or one playlist. If you need multiple songs then put them in one playlist. If you need the songs in two or more playlists in a single slideshow then create a new playlist from those other playlists. It's just the nature of the beast.
2 - You can either put all of the photos from the multiple slideshows into a new slideshow or export those slideshows to quicktime and join them together with iMovie or QT Pro. I think QT Pro would be better as it would avoid re-encoding into a new file as iMovie would do.
3 - Create the title in iMovie and the do a Save Clip, select jpg as the format, and import that new file into iPhoto.