Buttons appearing Mottled.. Looks ugly.. What am I doing wrong?

Hi all, I've come across an issue with my menus in building a dvd with Encore CS5.. I'm guessing it's something I'm doing wrong and I don't yet know it..
Here's the issue:
I've built all of the menus, no dramas.. Photoshop file is built in 1920 x 1080 dimensions.. No more than 18 links per page as Encore allows.. that's all good..
But the issue is, a lot (most) of the text buttons are coming up with what I'd describe as mottled highlighting colours..
'Selected' buttons show in yellow (I assume this is default as I haven't changed it)
'Clicked/Activated' buttons show in red.. again, I assume this is default..
But yea the problem I'm having does tend to make it a bit ugly..
Is there something I'm doing wrong, and is it an easy fix? (Meaning, please tell me I don't have to build these menus again.. 5 dvds time 6-9 menus each)..
I'm learning as I go with this so it may just be a settings thing which I don't know about, would love to hear from the pros on this one
What I do know is it was shot on a HDV camera 1440 x 1080.. I have had the same issue using 1920 x 1080 footage though so I'm assuming it's not that..
I'm burning onto dual layer dvd due to the size of the project also.. Automatic settings from what I can tell..
Cheers,
Rory O'Donnell

Have just been looking at it... and I'm a little confused.. Sorry, this may get frustrating
This is what I see in Encore with my text as buttons:
And then once I've added the square button (to be) in photoshop, this is what the layers look like in Photoshop:
I've saved the photoshop document, which has then updated in Encore.. I then ticked the boxes to make each button later an actual button, and now I see:
This is where I get lost.. I tried deleting the (=1) layer (under ( + ) Button 1, but then I guess I'm not quite understanding what I'm pasting, where I'm pasting it and so forth.. Whatever I did, it didnt end up with my new button linking to the old text button's location.. )
Again, thanks for your patience on this..
Message was edited by: Rory85

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