Audio background for menus and submenus does not start cleanly

I have a main menu with several submenus. I am not using any menu transitions or anything fancy here for this particular experiment/issue, I just want the audio behind the menus to start cleanly.
So far, it works perfectly in simulator or Apple's DVD Player, or Windows Media Player.
But in a set top box, it often chops off the beginning of the audio - it goes to the submenu, but then I miss the first beat of audio or something. It's not always consistent.
At this point, I have padded the beginning of each piece of BG audio with a full 2 seconds of silence, and it still doesn't start cleanly half the time. It's almost like the padding has no effect, although I can see that the clips I've assigned are 2 seconds longer. I've run out of ideas....thanks...

It's difficult for me to tell what it's doing with store-bought DVDs. In fact, this may be a common issue, because the few I tried all seemed to fade-in the audio clips.
So I tried that with mine, I put a little bit of a low bass note fade-in at the head of each audio clip - and it works! I don't know why.... it's like there's some audio threshold that has to be exceeded for the DVD player to actually start playing the audio.
Previously, my clips (which have drum beats) started right on the downbeat with a full groove. The first beat or so would get cut off. Now, with a little bit of a fade-in right before the downbeat, they play. I don't understand it, but it works....

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