Button Ghosts when played in a DVD Player

Hi,
I'm new to video and finally have a movie I'm satisfied with. I'm using the brushstroke theme for the dvd and it looks good too, especially when burned and played on my Mac. However, when I play the dvd on my tv or on my wife's PC, the selected menu button has a ghost, to the left when the button is on the left of the screen and to the right when the button is on the right. Looks pretty bad, especially when the button is text.
Thanks for any help and suggestions to get this resolved!
Steve
PS. I tried searching, but couldn't find a similar issue, so if it's been covered before, my apologies. . . .

Okay, I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer--should have posted this in iDVD. . .
Sorry.

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