Titles on iPhoto pix sent to iDVD

I made a saved slideshow in iPhoto from scanned slides, sent it to iDVD. It had titles for pix displayed at bottom of pictures, very readable. A few months later I made another DVD using saved slideshows from iPhoto, but the titles were top left, nearly obscured on TV. As far as I can remember I used the same procedures. How can I get picture titles at bottom of pictures?

Memory is getting small
By memory do you mean free disk space? How much free space do you have? It's strongly recommended that a minimum of 10GB free space be maintained (20 GB if you use iDVD a lot) for optimal system and application performance.
By searching for thumbnails can you explain further? Do you get a message?
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