Unimpressed with iDVD '08 and slideshows

I set up a slideshow with seven pages of about 30 slides each and with an audio track for each page. Each set of slides was set to run for the duration of the audio. Within iDVD, it all looks good. However, on the test disk image, the slides are displayed at very uneven intervals and then the display stops after about 20 seconds (but the audio carries on). Clicking on the controller timeline allows it to catch up, but it's unusable in its current state.
Furthermore, although iDVD and iPhoto are billed as being all interconnected and interwoven and all that jazz, changes to slides in iPhoto are not reflected in iDVD: you have to delete the existing slide and reimport from iPhoto. I had a few slides without captions or misoriented and it was quite tedious to have to reimport them one by one into the right place.
This is not what I expect from Apple at all.

What brand media did you use and what burn speed did you select in Disk Utility when you burned the disk image to writable media?
Maxell and Verbatim are good media choices and 4x or slower burn speed is best.
F Shippey

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I'm sorry to say it still doesn't work. I hate to bother you and take your time, but at lease in IE 7 and 8, the slideshow still doesn't function.
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I could just try to go with another java slideshow, but I really like this one.
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I have just been reading The Missing Manual for iMovie & iDVD 08. It describes how to create a disk image on your hard disk using iDVD. I have followed the instructions and created a dmg file but I am unable to get DVD player to open it.
According to the book, after opening up the image, when I go to File, Open, in DVD player I should get an option to "open Video_TS folder", but all I get is "open DVD media", which means it is looking for an actual, physical DVD. Clicking on this sends me to the finder. When I find the image it is greyed out.
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