DVD Menu and slides truncated/cropped against my will :-)

I seem to have the menu and slides cropped on the left side by a significant number of pixels. THIS OCCURS on my standalone DVD player and NTSC regular TV. When I preview the DVD on my computer it looks perfect.
What can I do to make sure the whole menu appears on my TV...I DON'T have a wide-screen TV...I have the OLD FASHION size.
Thanks, --bill

Overscan = not a single home TV on this planet will dispaly all pixels of the actual image area due to manufacturing variations. That's what safe areas are for. You need to resize your imags and place them against a frame which you won't mind getting cropped. The rest of your settings are right for an NTSC DVD.
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So apparently the screen shots I posted in my two posts did not get added.
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http://www.digitalproducer.com/article/DVD-Studio-Pro-Scripting-Part-4-28784
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