Thanks for all of your suggestions.

Marcie - is Photoshop the one that sells for about $600. in the computer stores? If so, that may be a bit steep for my slideshow projects. The only Photoshop set I could find at CompUSA was $599. Maybe they make a simpler (read that as "cheaper") version?

George - It turns out that the Roxio software that came with my DVD burner is indeed Roxio Photo Suite; and it works fairly well, except that it doesn't have cool transitions like fade in and out. The other problem was that the CD I made will play fine on one of our DVD players (the older one) but not on our new DVD player/recorder. The CD made with Ulead Movie Factory plays on both DVD players but is out of focus on both!! Does anyone know if things would work better if I recorded to a DVD rather than to a CD? As you can all tell from my questions, I am very much a tyro regarding such matters and, like most other such novices, find very little assistance in the manuals (paper or on-line) available for the various software. Clearly, the manuals are written by computer people for computer people and further all too often are obviously thrown together by someone for whom English is neither a first or second language. Maybe the best course of action is to got back to 35-mm slides and my trusty Kodak Carousel projector...