Trying to make a DVD for my DVD player from iPhoto slideshow

I have made an iPhoto slideshow of 100+ photos and 4 songs (from iTunes). I'm now trying to convert that slideshow to a DVD I can send to others and watch on my TV's DVD player. I used "Send to iDVD". When the transfer was completed, iDVD opened and I could play the slideshow (although only the first song would play; the rest of the slideshow was silent). Specifically, what are the next steps to get this slideshow into a format that I can burn onto a DVD?

To get the highest quality images in your slideshow, create it in iDVD. Place your photos in one album and your 4 songs in a playlist. Create a new iDVD project, then click the + button and add a new slideshow. Inside the slideshow workspace, under Media/Photos locate the album with your photos and drag it to the slideshow pane. The photos will be in the same order as in your iPhoto album. In Media/Music locate the playlist and drag it to the slideshow sound button. You can have your photo titles and comments appear in your slideshow if you like. You can also have navigation buttons so the user can advance manually. Another feature is that you can include the image files on the DVD so that anyone with the DVD can load the photos into his computer.
Limitations: no Ken Burns effect, only one type of transition applies to the whole slideshow. Many DVD players can't read more than 99 chapters, so the slideshow may pause or even stop after 99 photos (in an iDVD slideshow each photo is a DVD chapter). To avoid this, you can divide your photos and create more than one slideshow.
Advantage: While you can export your iPhoto slideshow, the photo dimensions are a bit smaller than the slideshow created by iDVD (or so I've read). This is why many people prefer to let iDVD create the slideshow.

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