PDF presentation from LaTeX: TexPower? Prosper?

[Glen Snyder <gsnyder@rice.edu>]

Hi all. I'm using Sarge, and need to put together a presentation that
will be burnt on a CD, and taken to a conference where it will be loaded
in Acrobat and projected on a screen. The samples in TexPower (already
PDFs) look pretty cool, but if I try running the sample tex file, and
then viewing with xdvi, then it's generally a mess (I would like to do
something similar to picexample.tex). The text is displayed in portrait
orientation, rather than landscape, with the text running off the page.
I also get an error 
 Package texpower Warning: Package soul not loaded.
but I do have a file:
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/soul.sty

So I have two questions:
1. Has anyone had any luck reproducing something like picexample.pdf or
picexample.ps from the picexample.tex?  If so, was it necessary to
download other tex packages and where should they reside? How do I tweak
the output to have it in landscape form?
2. Can anyone strongly recommend another latex package (Prosper?)
supplied by debian that would allow me to insert a bunch of EPS figures
and math formulas, and produce an electronic presentation that can run
on Acrobat Reader. 
Thanks,
Glen