ATV2 and second audio track

So, for Christmas, I sent out a home video to family, and as a bonus feature included an alternate audio track, which was accessible when playing the video in Quicktime, iTunes, and other i-devices.
I then saw the video played back on an AppleTV2, and to my surprise, it didn't see the alternate audio track at all. Confirmed that on the 'server' machine, iTunes could access the audio track, but when you hold down the 'select' button on the ATV2 remote, there's a tab for 'Audio', but it's grayed out and can't be selected. I also tried using AirPlay to push the video up, and the icon for changing the audio track disappears when you do that.
I tried tinkering around with the video using Subler, but none of my settings I tried were able to make it so that the ATV2 could select between two audio tracks.
Is this possible? The presence of the menu implies that it should be possible, but I haven't found a way to do it. Can anyone tell me what needs to be set or how the audio needs to be encoded?

I'm sure they're not encoded correctly, that's my question, really. How do they need to be encoded and configured?
I've tried the following configurations...
(In Subler there's a checkbox to indicate which audio is played normally, indicated with X for checked, _ for not checked)
1 X Stereo AAC
2 _ Stereo AC3
Defaults to AAC when played on QT or iTunes, ATV2 defaults to the AC3. ATV2 doesn't show track 1 as an option.
1 _ Stereo AAC
2 X Stereo AC3
Defaults to AC3 on all platforms, ATV2 doesn't show track 1 as an option.
1 X Stereo AC3
2 _ Stereo AC3
Defaults to the checked AC3 on all platforms, ATV2 doesn't show track 2 as an option
1 X Stereo AAC
Plays on all platforms
1 X Stereo AC3
Plays on all platforms
So as far as I can tell, ATV2 simply doesn't have support for a second audio track?

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