Background audio won't play through...

forgive me if this has already been asked... i typed in "background audio" on the search for encore only, and it gave me 0 results.
i'm actually getting a hang of this...
but, i have the audio set as a 20 second clip, to continuously loop until a selecttion is made, and it starts up fine, and it loops as well. however, when i highlight any selection on my menu, the clip starts over at 0:00 again is there any way scroll through all menu choices on the given screen without it restarting?
i've chosen different settings in the properties of the menu, and still nothing.

i'm not talking about a selection... i'm just talking about highlighting. i know i have some commercial dvd's where i can highlight differnt selections and it still plays the background audio...
i'm playing The Matrix (1) right now and it does it. the main menu, i can highlight play movie, then scene selection, then special features, and the music continues playing.
in the project i'm working on, i highlight 'play movie,' then go to 'scene selection' song restarts, then 'audio options,' song restarts...

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