Titles in iDVD?

Hi
I am working on my iDVD project. Is there any way of placing the titles on each of the slides/pictures? Sort of like you can put the titles on each of the picture in iPhoto.
It seems like it's impossible, though it's hard to believe since it's well designed application.
also, does anybody know if there is a difference in quality between PAL format and NTSC?
Thanx for any help.

I've tried every theme. The main title is missing no matter what theme I try and even when I start a new project it's missing. This is my first use of idvd6 but I have burned a few dozen disks with iDVD5 and never encountered this problem. I don't want to have to reload that but it's getting to that point. This is very frusrating. For add text I have tried the apple K as well as trying it under the "project" menu. Nothing happens.
Thanks for any help you can give me.

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The titles cannot be moved. If you are not using the Ken Burns effect in the slideshow creating it from within iDVD will let your automatically add the Titles at the bottom with additional space to add comments.
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I briefly looked at the suggestions/advice by Sue & Karl posted and I agree with them.
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OK, so far so good. Now let's look forward to your next project (or maybe this one if you still have problems).
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