Drop zone jpeg off center?

I am creating a a dvd and when I drop the jpeg onto the main menu button it looks fine, but when I start encoding it I can see that it shifts to being a little bit off center?
Here are some interesting details:
I burned one disc as widescreen and the image is centered.
Then I changed the format to 4:3 and now the same image on the same button is slightly off center to the right.
I deleted and re-dropped the image and it is still off to the right?
It would seem I need to start over, but I would prefer to avoid that if possible. That somehow the button is retaining the 16:9 format I first picked when it goes to encode?? Just my laymen guess.
Thanks for any ideas.
Henry

Steve,
For an SD DVD output from HD material, you will likely get better results, if you Share from your HD Project as DV-AVI Widescreen, and then Import that DV-AVI file into a new Project for authoring to DVD.
For the Menu Background, I would Scale that to the full size for that DVD Menu in PS, or PSE.
Good luck,
Hunt
PS - Note: there are some PrE 9 Menus, that do not function, as they should, and added background Images might not take, or might only take for either the Main Menu, or the Selection Menu. There are several threads on this issue, and also a list of how each Menu Set in PrE 9 works, or does not work.

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