Chapter title on ipod nano

Hi
I've created an AAC file with some chapter information using the chapter tool. It successfully shows the chapter titles in iTunes. When I transfer it to my iPod nano, I am able to forward to each chapter, but there is no place that I can see where the Chapter title is displayed. Am I missing some trick, either on formatting the original file or on displaying it on the nano?
Thanks
Ian

HI David
It seemed to be an obvious function to display the chapter names - at least as you skipped to them. But maybe next rev!?
The Chapter tool is a command line tool (ie you have to run it from terminal) in which it takes your audio file (m4a or m4b) and based on an xml input file which you create adds chapter marks and other things (eg pictures and links). It sounds daunting (well it you're not a terminal user) but really it's fairly straightforward and well documented (just read the example xml file).
You can download it from the apple site:
http://homepage.mac.com/applepodcast/podcasts/Resources/static/podcastchapter_toolbeta.dmg
I think there may be little utilities now available to make editing the xml file easier and/or running the chapter tool. So check out versiontracker or google.
Thanks
Ian

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