Photoshop Layer Styles and Encore Help

I've made a background in PS CS3 with buttons, the buttons have an outer glow layer style applied to them, when I import the (background & buttons) as a menu into Encore CS3 the buttons show up with a stoke effect and not the glow effect that was applied in PS CS3.
This is my first Encore project so is there something I'm doing wrong!!
Thanks
Scott

My guess is that you have applied the "glow" to the highlight (subpicture) layer of the button. A subpicture can consist of max 3 pure colors which isn't nearly enough to render a glow effect in.
The only way to simulate the glow effect as button highlight is by using this workaround technique:
How do I create a Button Rollover effect?
(This is not a recommendation. I would rather suggest to rework your menu design so that it doesn't need workarounds.)

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