Hi--I just posted a question regarding this same issue of music and slides "skipping". I have made many slideshows successfully--I too am a professional photographer. For some reason, I can't get the dang thing to work right now! I have 3 computers, one of which is a laptop, and it does the same on all of them. The last time I tried redoing the whole show from start to finish, and when I run the preview before adding music, it runs fine. When I then add 2 or 3 songs (MP3 from hardrive), it starts skipping--before burning to cd, running from preview. Does it matter what size the files are--I'm using Canon 10D, jpg. about 1.5 mb, at 72 dpi. I have about 150 images in the show. I'm using only the dissolve effect, and I'm checking the synchronize to music box. I want the music to end at end of slides. I've done this successfully at times, and other times, it just won't work. Also, I have problems sometimes with the autorun. I have to go to the CD drive, and click on the exe. file to make it run. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Connie