Transcode/Flicker Nightmares - Please help!

Dear all,
I've used Encore 2.0 to build a DVD entirely of menus and slideshows. The slideshows are based on different image sources - some are high resolution digi camera images, some are low-res digi camera images, some are scans of photos (from a desktop scanner) and some come from the photolab (scanned from 35mm film). All JPEG. The menus and remaining slides were made in photoshop with the PAL template.
Some of the pictures in the slideshows and some of the slides made with photoshop (PAL template) kind of flicker when played on my DVD player! It makes it quite difficult to watch it makes you feel sick. Some of the pictures display perfectly (the high res digi camera pictures to be specific)
At the moment, all source is set to transcode to PAL 4MB VBR 2 Pass and it takes up only 1.2Gb of the disk
My question is - are my transcode settings the cause of the flicker? If so what should I set them too and if not not what else can I do to get rid of it!
Please Please help me!
Thanks
W

Warny.
Do you have the images as Camera Raw files?
If so, I would bring these into Photoshop, and save the images at 72 DPI, 720x576 document (from the template), and save as an uncompressed TIFF file.
Bring these into Premiere Pro, and set up your slideshow as you want it to look.
Export from Premiere as a CBR 3Mb/sec MPEG-2 file (This will look just fine, trust me on this).
Import this into Encore and off you go.

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