Copying old home made DVDs w/ a menu

I would like to duplicate a DVD a friend made a few years ago. It has a menu and the video on it. This is NOT a copyrighted DVD but one that he made in DVD SP2, i think before he got rid of his equipment. It might have been made on another program. He can't remember.
I have a program YadeX that will write a disk image but I haven't had much success playing back DVDs once I write that disk image on it. It will usually play back on my computer if you tell the DVD player program to open the Video_TS folder BUT it will not play back on a regular DVD player.
Is there a program out there that will allow me to copy this DVD with the menu and video on it? Hopefully so because I don't feel like grabbing the menu and footage off of it and then rebuilding it in DVD studio pro.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Lee
Mac OS X (10.4.7)
1.5 GB DDR SDRAM
Dual 2 GHz Processor
Power PC G5
FCP 5.1.2
Black Magic Decklink Extreme
Sony UVW 1800
Motion 2

Hi:
Check this link: How To Make Copies of DVDs.
Hope that helps !
Alberto

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