Why is the soundtrack broken in slideshows?

Hello everyone,
I'm burning a PAL DVD with iDVD which contains a movie and two slideshows, which I've done many times before without a problem. Now though, the sound is broken, generally when the picture changes in the slideshows. It just drops out. It plays ok on the iMac I burned it on, but having tried it on a couple of DVD players with TVs, the problem occurs.
Originally, I had one slideshow with probably around 90 photos, timed to fit with the audio. The track had to repeat itself due to the number of photos. Thinking this might be the problem, I split the slideshow into two, using two different soundtracks. The result was the same.
I next tried one slideshow with just 40 photos, with the audio to fit, and the other with 65 photos, but not fitted to audio. Just 3 secs. per photo. That didn't change anything either, so I'm stumped.
Has anyone else encountered this?

The Burn Speed is IMPORTANT as this use to be one of the major culprits when coming to use the DVD in PCs or even on the Mac that made it.
Slower is BETTER
But by Saving as a DiskImage one get one more Safety step - and I always does this Now.
Then I use - Disk Util tool to do the Burn and here one selects Burn Speed in the Burn Process.
In iDVD go up to Top row Menu
- Apple / iDVD
- and down here to Preferences
- and here select Advance
- Now at the bottom of this window there is Burn Speed
AND there seems to be a linguistic problem for Apple
BEST - use to NOT BE BEST AT ALL in several applications - I NEVER USE BEST BURN SPEED
as this use to mean Shortest TIME = MOST BURN ERRORS Possibly.
I use x2 or x4 for DVD and SO TOO for CDs (AND same goes for encoding qualities - for 45 to 120 minutes movies I use Pro Quality - and for 1 to 45 minutes movie + menu I use Best Performances. High Quality and Best Quality (in iDVD 6) - are the lowest quality that iDVD can DO.
I've very few problematic DVDs or CDs
Yours Bengt W

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