DVD Menu Creation

When creating a menu with text in Photoshop, Indesign, whatever..
Once we bring the file into DVD Pro.. the text looks jaggid and horrible..
Can anyone tell me why?
The menus were created at 720 x540 and it's a SIMPLE MENU.. Nothing crazy whatsoever. We have a main layer with text, and an overlay layer which changes the text color. SO SIMPLE!
Can someone telll me why DVD Pro does this to the text? Squishes What do you have to do in order to have clean, crisp text without using the type tool in the program?

this might be a little useful, but it is something interesting i noticed with the latest and greatest in DVDSP.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=539420&tstart=0
Mikey m.

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