Combo drive playback - DVDSP 4

I have just upgraded to Final Cut Studio (Universal).
When i create a DVD in DVDSP4 they will not play correctly in 4 different laptops all having combo-drives.
They are:
12" 1GHz, 15" 1GHz, 17" 1GHz and an iBook G3 about 2 years old.
All have the combo drive and none will correctly show menus which contain photoshop files (backgrounds). The photoshop file just don't show up. Otherwise the DVD plays fine.
The pshop files are TIFF and flat.
They play fine everywhere else. Anyone else seen this?
Chip
various G4 desktop and laptop Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Have seen it happen with layered files, and some people seem to have had it with flattened files (JPEG/PNG recentlly), you may want to try PCT flattened, they seem to be the most reliable
How did you make the menus, did you also use an overlay or use DVD SP interface for buttons and so forth? I usually find the best results are making everything everything outside of DVD SP and bringing finished assets in, I often see more issues with playbacck and so forth when I have used anything (such as templates and so forth) that are in DVD SP (Not that there are alot, but I will make a DVD using a menu from the templates and it will be glitchy and will not play at the menu, yet if I put mmy oown menu it, same DVD works)

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