I just made a picture gallery VCD using Ulead DVD Photo-something (you know the one)...

Anyway, menus worked, it played, but there are several things that were undesirable with it. (Played on a Pioneer DV-343) Aspect ratio was gfood, and that was encouraging...

Nonetheless, I need a better way of doing this. Here's my problems:

I need to be able to pause between pictures. Ulead sets them all to play at XX second intervals, I can somewhat skip back and forth using "chapter" buttons, but I cannot PAUSE on a single photo!

Ideally, I would like to pause on a photo, skip back and forth between them also.

I'd also like to be able to mix video content with the photo content, and both have menus to start them off. Ulead doesn't seem to support this, NERO can, but its menus are peculiar, and it messes up JPEG images randomly..

Is there anything NERO-like which does the same thing, or is NERO the ONLY one? Have they fixed bugs?