IDVD Scene Selection Buttons Dont Work Properly

Trying to burn a DVD with multiple scene selections. This project has 19 scenes. No matter which button I click on, they all go to 1 chapter. Even the Play Movie button on the main menu goes to the same scene. I looked at the map & can't see if anything is wrong. This happens periodically but can't figure out why this happens.
Thanks for your help.

(BTW, iDVD 7.0.3 IS iDVD 08 that came with iLife 8....There was no iLife 7).
THOUGHTS:
1. I would first trash iDVD's Preference file: With iDVD closed, go to your Home folder(YourUserName)/Library/Preferences/com.apple.idvd.plist
Drag this plist file to the trash. Don't worry...iDVD will create a new fresh one when you relaunch it.
2. I also recommend that you do a 'repair permissions' on your computer's drive.
Open Disk Utility and locate your computer's named icon in the left panel.
Select it, and then choose to 'repair permissions' You will see this option if the First Aid tab is selected.
Be patient...it make take some time.
If anything needs to be corrected, let DU do it.
When it says that everything is now ok, you are done.
After doing both of the above, reopen your iDVD project. You can try to burn a disk or create a disk image file again, but if that still does not work right, I would create a new iDVD project and make a disk image file from that one. If the first project is not working, something must be corrupted with the chapters, so I recommend a new iDVD project.
3. Be sure you have followed the chapter marker 'rules':
Don't put a marker at the beginning of your iMovie...iDVD will do that automatically.
Don't put a marker within two seconds of the beginning or the end of your movie.
And, don't put a marker on or within two seconds of any transition.
That last one is not so crucial as it used to be, but if you put most of your markers on transitions, you may run into problems.
I use iMovie 6, and I make use of its ability to be exported as a quicktime movie. I then open a new iMovie project and drag in the quicktime version of my original iMovie, make chapter markers and use this one to put into iDVD. Because the iMovie is one long clip now, I can put chapter markers anywhere (except the beginning) and they always work.
I think it is a bit more complicated to do this with iMovie 9; you will need to search in that discussion.
4. Also be sure you have not used non-alphanumeric characters for your scene titles. iDVD apparently does not like things like ampersands--& and other such characters.
Post back if you are still having problems.

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