Blu-Ray disc freezes for half a second between chapters

I'm brand new to using Adobe for video editing.  I just finished my first Encore CS6 project, it's been quite a learning experience.  I have a 40 minute video with 18 chapters that I edited in Premiere Pro and exported for Blu-Ray as a single sequence.  Encore still insisted on transcoding it, it was irritating to have to wait but it worked. I created a simple blu-ray menu with a chapter index with 10 items per page created from a chapter playlist.  The first play is the first page of the menu, and each chapter plays sequentially.  There are no end actions on any of the chapters, they are intended to play sequentially starting from any chapter selected in the menu.  Encore said I have an oprhan timeline, but I don't see how, since it's my only time line and each chapter points to it.
I built a Blu-Ray disc and it works great except for a half a second freeze in audio and video as it plays through each chapter point.  I built a DVD from the same project and it does not have this issue but its video is jerky during movement such as a scene where I'm panning the camera to follow an actor.
The export settings from permiere were:
1920x1080, 29.97 fps, upper
VBR, 2 pass, Target 25.00 Mbps, Max 30.00 Mbps
PCM, 48 kHz, Stereo
I found several threads that seemed to be similar to these issues going all the way back to Encore CS4, but I haven't found any solutions.
So to sumarize:
I have four issues in order of importance:
1. Blu-Ray freezing briefly as it plays through chapter points
2. DVD has jerky video in higher motion scenes
3. Transcoding what should already be Blu-Ray ready video
4. Orphaned timeline that doesn't seem to affect anything
Any suggestions?

I wanted to test a possible issue with the freezes, but never got to it. Sorry you did not get any responses.
The bluray should not freeze as you go through chapter points on a timeline. The fact that the timeline is an orphan is curious. You might post a screenshot of your flowchart.
What version of Premeire are you using to create the exported files?

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