Buttons don't navigate properly in Apple DVD Player!

Hello there,
This is extraordinarily frustrating! Can somebody please help ASAP?
We're running DVD Studio Pro 4.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.3.9, and we just finished authoring a DVD with a layered menu created from a Photoshop document.
When we put the DVD into a normal DVD player connected to our television, the remote control works as expected to navigate through our buttons. When we press right, it goes to the right (as we programmed it to do so). When we press left, it goes to the left (as we programmed it to do so). Everything works just fine!
HOWEVER -- here is the problem: When we put it into our computer running APPLE'S VERY OWN Apple DVD Player, the simulated remote on the screen has a mind of its own! When we press right on one button, it will go to the left. When we press right on another button, it will go up. When we press down on one button, it will go left. This is absolutely MADDENING! And this is Apple's OWN player!
We've also noticed that the simulator within DVD Studio Pro plays back the DVD verry slow... in a choked performance way. More so than we've seen with any DVD in the past. Is this part of the problem?
We are pulling our hair out over here trying to solve this! Can anyone please help?
Thanks!
Scott

An overlay style menu is a lot easier to create than a layer based one, and ionvolves just two flat files - one for the background (with everything on it that you want to show when buttons are not selected, etc) and one for the highlights (the overlay layer contains the shapes, text, tick, underline arrow or whatever that you want to show up when the button is selected).
These menus react faster, take only one click to activate a button and support the use of audio. They can't get as graphically rich as a layer based menu and if that is the prime consideration then I'd recommend using a series of menus linked together to go between the different button states, as this is still better than a photoshop layer based menu (which, incidentally, gets turned into a series of linked menus anyway as your disc is being built!)

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