Creating DVD w/ menu... Wanted no "Play all"!

Hi,
I'm working with an project where I have made use of the menus for the DVD, I have the startmenu with choices to "Play all" and "Play scene" and I want to get rrid of the "Play all" choice!
The Premiere Elements Help file talks about the possibility to make DVD w/ menu that does not have the "Play all" button on the startmenu and also the help talks about getting rid off buttons in the DVD menu - but helps me nothing!
Does anybody here have a hint about how to get rid of the "Play all" buttonchoice on the startmenu for the DVD?

I have localized Premiere Elements to Swedish and press F1 for helpfile, then in the popup html helpfile I choose "Skapa skivmenyer" which directtranslates into *"Create discmenus".
Then I select "Typer av skivor och menyalternativ " = " *"Types of discs and menualternatives"
Then I look at the bottom of that page and see a section about menubase discs - there it speaks about it "
Menybaserad skiva med flera filmval
De här skivorna passar bäst för fristående filmer, som du inte vill kombinera till en enskild film. Om du till exempel skapar en skiva med ett bröllop kanske du vill ha förberedelserna, ceremonin och festen som separata filmer. Var och en av dem får då en egen knapp på huvudmenyn."
=
*"Menubased disc with several clipchoices:
This discs is suitable for independant clips, that you do not want to be played combined as one film. If e.g. you create a disc with an wedding then maybe you want the preparations, ceremony and the party as separate films. Each of them gets an button in the mainmenu."
* My own translation - not the english helptext

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