I just spent the better part of 3 days downloading and testing programs to to do almost exactly
what you are looking for, and the best program I found was "Digital Photo Slide Show". It
includes autorun, slide show, dozens of different fades and provision to play your own music
among other things.
It is a shareware program (about $20) with a 60 day free trial period. A google search will find it's
home page.
Hope this is useful to you.

Bob Richardson

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>I'm in need of a program that will allow me to take pictures of my daughter
>and future son-in-law and make a slide show. I want to be able to put the
>show on a CD and show it at their reception. I would like to be able to have
>music in the background (also on the CD) and have different fade in and out
>of the pictures.
>

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